Israel will remove from their positions all women holding positions high security prison guardsafter it was discovered that some of them they had sexual relations regularly with a Palestinian prisoner accused of terrorism.

“All female soldiers in the Israeli army will immediately stop serving as guards in high-security prisons where there are Palestinian terrorists“Israel Prison Service chief Katy Perry and extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said in a joint statement yesterday.

The statement came shortly after it became known that israeli army soldierserved as a prison guard during compulsory military service, was suspended for intimate and sexual relations According to Jewish media, with a Palestinian maximum security prisoner.

The Petah Tikva Court of First Instance imposed a ban on the disclosure of details of the case, including the location of the prison, as well as the identities of the guard and the prisoner, which corresponds to life imprisonment for attacking Israeli civilians.

According to the Israeli press, during interrogation the arrested soldier admitted that at least four other prison guards had sexual relations with the same prisoner who He was transferred to a separate wing of the prison. and was also interrogated.

They also report that the prisoner allegedly he had a phone on his cell phone which he used to communicate with several guards and share photos.

Following the scandal, Minister Ben Gvir said that by 2025 “not a single female soldier “He will remain behind the scenes, where the high-security cells are,” Israeli media reported.

This is not the first time Israeli guards have had sexual relations with Palestinian prisoners; which has motivated calls in the past for Israeli soldiers, often performing compulsory military service, They do not serve in high security prisons.

However, the attempts were unsuccessful due to a lack of manpower to replace the female soldiers, although the Prison Service began a recruitment campaign in January and hired more than a thousand new guards to replace the female soldiers.

A year ago, the Israeli government ordered an investigation following a prison scandal in which Palestinian prisoners allegedly assaulted and raped female soldiers. They served as prison guards and that some high-ranking prison officials acted as pimps.

EFE