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00:00Deep in Israel's Negev desert, soldiers struggle to hold back a crowd of protesters as they
00:09try to force their way into the Tehran army base.
00:13Right-wing demonstrators broke into both this military compound and the Beit Lid army base.
00:19They turned up after investigators arrived on Monday to question nine Israeli soldiers.
00:25If they touch our soldiers, we'll build a shield wall, the people will rise up against
00:30the government, be it left or right or whatever.
00:33Nobody can touch our soldiers.
00:35Not the people who died defending us, not my friends who died defending us.
00:39The first time in Israel that the police army, the military police, arrest soldier from the
00:47reserve because they have a lot of claim against them.
00:51And it's actually, at the end of the day, the army against the army.
00:58The soldiers who were questioned are suspected of abusing a Palestinian captured from an
01:02elite unit of Hamas.
01:05Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right member of the Israeli government, said the
01:10soldiers should be lauded as heroes.
01:12But Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the chief of the Israeli military have
01:16sharply criticised the protests.
01:20We are in the midst of a war and actions of this type endanger the security of the
01:24state.
01:25It is precisely these investigations that protect our soldiers in Israel and the world
01:30and preserve IDF values.
01:35Stateh-Man has been used as a detention centre for Palestinian prisoners captured in Gaza
01:40since October 7th, when Hamas attacked Israel.
01:44Rights groups and whistleblowers say detainees have been abused in the centre and that even
01:49doctors have been complicit.