#Israel / Faking complementarity: Israel prosecutes IDF soldiers for stolen tablets while shielding alleged war criminals
The military justice system appears to be deliberately manufacturing a facade of accountability by aggressively prosecuting minor infractions like property theft, while systematically avoiding investigation and prosecution of serious alleged war crimes including torture and killings of detainees.
[...] (translation) The only incitement case that resulted in an indictment involves an Arab soldier serving as a cook, who laughed at footage of militants in the Nova festival area, and later made statements about footage from Be'eri that were 'offensive, disgraceful and racist towards Jews'. Additionally, he was accused of hitting another soldier in his unit. The defendant pleaded guilty and was convicted as part of a plea bargain for disgraceful conduct and violence against a soldier, and was sentenced to 60 days of actual imprisonment.
This selective enforcement pattern suggests an attempt to deflect international scrutiny while protecting those accused of grave violations - precisely the type of bad faith implementation of domestic justice that the #ICC complementarity principle was designed to prevent.
[...] (transaltion) A source familiar with the work of the military prosecution told Haaretz that the avoidance of arrests stems from the protests against the public investigations of soldiers, which has also weakened the prosecution's hand regarding filing indictments.
Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-11-25/ty-article/.premium/00000193-5f84-dcb0-abfb-7f9f24830000 or https://archive.ph/UFwK4
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