Israel removes women from prison positions over sex scandal

The Israeli government has ordered the immediate removal of female security guards from prisons across the country after reports of a sexual relationship between female security guards performing mandatory military service and a convicted Palestinian prisoner. for terrorism.

The Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court has imposed an information embargo on the case, so it has not even been reported in which prison the scandal occurred.

However, after the news broke, the commander of the Israel Prison Service, Katy Perry, and the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, published a statement announcing the “immediate end” of the presence of military women in prisons.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has published that the Palestinian prisoner is a member of Al Fatah convicted of an attack in which Israelis were killed in central Israel who used a mobile phone to maintain contact with several guards and send them photographs.

This Thursday, an interrogation of a security guard was carried out, which revealed that four other guards had relations with the prisoner.. The five would be finishing their two-year mandatory military service.

A lawyer for the security guard has assured that the prisoner threatened his client to have non-consensual relations, but police sources have indicated that there is evidence that the relations were consensual.. The prisoner was transferred this Friday to an isolation wing.