For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “it is a crime against humanity”. "I'm trying to understand and I can't do it," Defense Minister Benny Gantz reacted: a wave of indignation shakes Israel on Friday after the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl by a group about thirty men in a hotel in the seaside town of Eilat.
The facts allegedly occurred on Friday August 14. According to a local television channel, the teenager had traveled to Eilat with a friend, to spend a few days there. There, they would have met a group of acquaintances of this friend. The opportunity for them to go out for a drink. It would be on their return to the hotel that the rape allegedly took place reports The Times of Israel.
According to local press, the attackers lined up outside the door of a hotel room where the underage girl, 16, was intoxicated. The friend of the victim would have tried to intervene, without succeeding. The teenager filed a complaint last week for alleged gang rape by thirty men, Israel police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. “Two suspects have been arrested in connection with an incident under investigation involving a 16-year-old girl in a town in the south of the country,” he added.
Wave of indignation
In the Israeli political class, condemnations have multiplied since Thursday. “It's shocking, there is no other word! It is not only a crime against a young girl, it is a crime against humanity itself which deserves all our condemnation, "commented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who called for" those responsible to be brought to justice. in justice ".
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin wrote a letter to "youth" on social media to denounce "the reported horrors of gang rape in Eilat": "Sexual assault, rape, sexual exploitation, sexual violence are stains indelible […] which destroy us as a society and make us miserable ”.
“Since yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, I tried, and failed, to understand: what is a man who is standing in a queue crowded with dozens of others , in front of a room where a disoriented young girl is lying, tries to prove? Benny Gantz, Minister of Defense, said in a tweet.
From Thursday evening, spontaneous demonstrations took place in various cities such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in support of the girl and to condemn the sexual violence inflicted on women.
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