Scenes showing the hell on Earth that Gaza has become throughout the course of the years-long war have exposed how Israel's claims that it is defending its right to exist are little more than a facade it hides behind to justify committing a genocide against the Palestinian people. With a tentative "peace" (by Israeli standards) now in place, the pain of the war in Gaza has given way to the woe of its aftermath. With the fog of war dissipated, the full scope of the atrocities committed by the IDF has come into a sharpened focus.

Calls for the IDF and top Israeli officials to be brought to justice for their rampant human rights abuses have not come from the international community alone. They have also come from within the Israeli government itself. Yet, those within Israel's body politic who call for justice are met with the same vehement disdain as the nations that have condemned the country for committing war crimes against the people of Gaza. The latest casualty of this genocidal mass formation psychosis highlights how no person, even one within the highest ranks of the Israeli government or military, is safe from the bloodlust of the architects of the war in Gaza.

After coming into the crosshairs of ministers within the Netanyahu government for not sanctioning their brazen disregard for the human rights of the Palestinian people, Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has resigned from her position as the chief legal officer of the Israeli military. In her resignation letter, Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted that she approved the release of a video revealing institutionalized acts of torture committed by the IDF against Palestinian prisoners of war that took place in the Sde Teiman detention camp in July 2024. While the IDF has faced a backlash over the acts of torture that have been committed at Sde Teiman, that outrage has come to pale in comparison to the backlash faced by the Israeli officials like Tomer-Yerushalmi and those operating under her directives tasked with bringing its perpetrators to justice.

Sde Teiman has long held the reputation of being the Israeli equivalent of Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison notoriously known as the site of sadism under the tyranny of dictator Saddam Hussein, and ironically, the locus of torture and abuse of detainees held by the American forces "liberating" the country from his despotism. The transgressions taking place in the Israeli detention camp in the heart of the Negev Desert were thrust into international spotlight, bringing ignominy to the IDF in July 2024 when several reservists were arrested for the brutal rape of a Palestinian prisoner.

Following the arrests, Sde Teian was taken under siege by a mob of Israelis who broke into the prison to attack military investigators questioning IDF soldiers about the torture allegations. The site where the soldiers who were arrested were being detained also became descended upon by a mob aligned with the furthest right-most factions in Israel's political landscape, led by Israeli National Defense Minister and self-avowed Jewish supremacist Itamar Ben-Gvir. The mob, serving to do the bidding of Ben-Gvir, called for the immediate release of the detained IDF reservists, demonstrating the turmoil within the inner machinations of Israel's political system as members of Netanyahu's ruling coalition pitted themselves against the country's military command.