"The army closes its ears and eyes to what happened in the prison": The
family of an officer of the IDF Intelligence Division who is in a lifeless prison, met in recent days with the outgoing Chief of Staff, Lt. Col. Aviv Kochavi, and sent him an open letter this morning.
"The IDF prefers to repress, the IDF prefers to erase the incident and you, by your actions, give it support... It seems that the 'narrative of blame' is more suitable for the IDF than accepting responsibility... We hoped and cursed that you, as the one on whose watch the incident occurred Every parent of a soldier in the IDF should be deprived of sleep - present to us and the public, an honest, transparent, poignant investigation of the entire event, in order to learn lessons... You did not give us these answers. You left an open case. We will continue and demand them. No We will rest and not be silent."
A year and a half ago, an officer who served in the Intelligence Division of the IDF and was accused of offenses under a gag order, died in the hospital, after being in a critical condition at the prison base where he was imprisoned. An indictment was filed against the officer last September 2020 after an investigation by the Israel Defense Forces and he was arrested by court decision the military
Last week, Reserve Major Nitzan Alon clarified in a conversation with military reporters that the soldier will be recognized as a member of the IDF. "He was released in an orderly manner, and we did not find a fault in the fact that he was not buried in a military burial," explained Alon. "However, we found it appropriate to comply with the family's request and recognize him As someone who was a soldier at the time of his death, what was also in a military context, in a prison under military custody, and died there."
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