A group of Israeli regime soldiers, with their faces covered in black cloth, convened a press conference on Sunday, flanked by senior military and intelligence officers.

A video leaked early last year showed the same men gang-raping a Palestinian abductee at the notorious Sde Teiman torture center, which immediately ignited a storm of outrage.

The case dates back to July 2024, when Israeli soldiers subjected a Palestinian prisoner to brutal sexual torture at the Sde Teiman torture facility in the southern occupied territories.

A video of the heinous incident was broadcast by Israel’s Channel 12 a month later.

Last week, Yifat Tomer‑Yerushalmi, the former Israeli military advocate general, admitted that she had authorized the release of a video, sending shockwaves across the world.

Inside the occupied territories, however, the outrage focused less on the abuse itself and more on the leak of the footage, which came as a big embarrassment to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials directly involved in the genocidal war that has killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, since October 2023.

After the video surfaced, the Israeli army said it would open an investigation — not into the soldiers who carried out the abuse, but into the people who leaked the footage. That response shows clearly how the settler-colonial entity functions.

The investigation focused on whether officials in the military advocate general's office helped leak the video to Channel 12. Earlier, prosecutors had indicted five reservists at Sde Teiman for “severe abuse” that left a detainee with broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a torn rectum.

The sham attempt to hold these soldiers accountable sparked violent riots outside Israeli military bases, which are dubbed Israel’s “right-to-rape” rallies, as they defend the rapists.

At the Sunday presser, the rapists-in-uniform, who enjoy the backing of far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, brazenly boasted that they remain free and said, “We will prevail.”

"I stand here today because I am tired of silence. Instead of appreciation, we received accusations; instead of thanks, there was silence," said one of them, identified by the initial"A".

The presser, which was staged to fool the international media, made it clear that the perpetrators have no remorse for their actions and are confident that they will get away with it.

The main accused, later pulled off the mask and appeared on Israel’s Channel 14, expressing absolutely no remorse after the video of the crime was leaked, projecting himself as a victim.

He said the top military lawyer, who leaked the footage, must be interrogated.

Tomer‑Yerushalmi, the top Israeli military prosecutor who leaked the footage of the rape to the media, has since been placed under detention on charges of obstructing the investigation after reportedly attempting suicide. She has been publicly defamed, dismissed from her position, and is now under investigation for letting the world know who committed the rape.

Her main motive for launching the probe, out of hundreds of other similar incidents that have never seen the light of day, was that this case was caught on camera and the victim was hospitalized with detailed medical records.

The goal basically was to pre-empt intervention by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has already issued arrest warrants against top regime officials, including Netanyahu.

The Palestinian victim, whose name has been withheld, was not only subjected to a brutal gang-rape by Israeli soldiers, but he was also severely tortured.

The assault reportedly was so dreadful that it caused his intestines to rupture and tore his rectum. He had to undergo 20 surgical operations, including colostomy and urostomy, and continues to suffer serious medical complications.

He was released three weeks ago without ever being charged or tried – because he had been framed on bogus charges like thousands of other Palestinians. According to sources, he was released to prevent him from testifying against his rapists, who continue to roam free.

The victim now fears for his life, with every likelihood that he may be targeted and silenced to cover up the horrendous atrocity, because in the occupied Palestinian territories, it is the victim who has to cover for cover, not the perpetrator.

A classified Israeli military order, leaked on social media, confirms that the Palestinian man raped on camera for 15 minutes in July 2024 was a civilian, not an elite Hamas ‘Nukhba’ fighter as Zionist propagandists claimed to justify the crime.

The document reveals he was one of 1,700 Gazans held without charge and freed in the prisoner exchange deal on October 13, 2025.

Under this agreement, Israel released only those Palestinians who had not been charged with any crime. Israel continues to hold over 9,000 Palestinian abductees, most of them without charge, including hundreds in secret military torture camps like Sde Teiman.

The UN Commission of Inquiry has found that “forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault” are “standard operating procedure” employed by Israeli occupation forces toward Palestinians.

Other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, including rape and violence to the genitals, are committed either under explicit orders or with implicit encouragement by Israel’s top political and military leadership, including Netanyahu and his war minister.

The UN commission states that the “frequency, prevalence, and severity” of these crimes amount to a deliberate use of sexual and gender-based violence as a method of war to “destabilize, dominate, oppress, and destroy the Palestinian people.”

Breaking the Silence, an Israeli organization made up of former Israeli soldiers who testify about abuses they witnessed or participated in, has confirmed that systematic torture at Sde Teiman is a fact, not a figment of imagination.

Israeli military, however, found it intolerable that a video revealing this torture had leaked to the public, because they tried everything to push it under the carpet, like in other cases.

The fact is that since October 7, Palestinians have been routinely tortured and starved in Israeli torture centers. This is confirmed by testimonies from detainees, soldiers and doctors who served there, and by the number of Palestinians arrested alive and returned dead.

In January, the occupation army acknowledged that at least 46 Palestinian abductees had died in custody. Since then, the death toll has risen alarmingly.

A former soldier who served at Sde Teiman described the degradation: “You see normal, pretty ordinary people reaching a point where they abuse people for their own amusement, not even for interrogation or anything. For fun, or revenge.”

And then there is the growing number of cases of theft of organs from Palestinian abductees, which puts their lives at greater risk. Many of the bodies returned recently by the Israeli regime authorities bore visible signs of torture and surgical incisions, showing their organs had been removed.

Hamas has urged the formation of international committees to visit notorious Israeli prisons, examine the conditions of Palestinian inmates, expose the atrocities committed under official supervision by occupation authorities, and work toward their immediate release, especially in light of the horrific abuses being leaked from the infamous Sde Teiman torture camp.

Ramy Abdu of Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, in a post on X on Monday, also highlighted the scale of impunity enjoyed by Israeli war criminals and rapists.

“Soldiers raped a man on camera until his intestines burst. Ministers, MPs, & religious leaders praised them. The public cheered. BBC: “alleged abuse.” Not a single proven case of rape on Oct 7 — yet the BBC and western media still pair it with fake stories of “beheaded babies,”” he stated.

In July, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, said torture of Palestinians in notorious Israeli prisons has become widespread and systematic since October 7, 2023, when the regime launched its carpet bombing of Gaza.

“Since October 7, torture against Palestinian prisoners has become widespread and systematic. Both male and female detainees have been subjected to sexual violence, including rape,” Albanese stated.

This culture of sexual violence runs deep within Israeli settler society. In April, the world was shocked by an incest charge involving Israel’s minister of illegal settlements, Orit Strook.

Strook, a member of the far-right Jewish Power Party and a vocal advocate for illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, was accused by her daughter, Shoshana Strook, of incest. Shoshana filed a police complaint in Italy for sexual assault by her parents and a brother.

More recently, American journalist Noa Avishag Schnall recounted the harrowing ordeal she and her companions endured when Israeli forces stormed and seized the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla Coalition. She described being subjected to “extreme brutality” by occupation soldiers, including beatings and “threats of rape.”

In another damning revelation, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a survivor of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, disclosed in her memoir that she suffered brutal beatings and rape at the hands of a “well-known prime minister.”

Giuffre described terrifying experiences where she was forced to beg for her life. Though she withheld the name to avoid retribution, reports said he was referred to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.

An investigation by the Israeli daily Israel Hayom also uncovered disturbing accounts from young girls describing organized sexual abuse at religious ceremonies.

One victim described how these acts had been kept secret for years, normalized through ritual.

“There was a schedule – when to say which verse, how things were ‘supposed’ to be done,” she said, emphasizing the chilling orchestration behind the abuse.

As people now debate the leaked footage of Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian and what it signifies, it is amply clear that this is only the tip of a much larger iceberg.