Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich (head of the "Jewish Supremacist" National Religious Party-Religious Zionism), on August 7 complained that: "No one in the world will allow us to starve 2 million people, even though it might be justified and moral in order to free the hostages."
Also on August 7 Israel’s Channel 12 released video of a gang of soldiers raping a prisoner. Yoel Donchin, the doctor who treated the prisoner in the incident said he suffered from "a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage and broken ribs".
On July 29 a mob invaded Beit Lid army base to free the soldiers involved in the rape.
In debate at the Knesset, Likud Party member Hanoch Milwidsky justified the rape and abuse of Palestinian prisoners as legitimate. When specifically asked if he really meant anything at all was permitted, using sexually explicit details of the rape, Milwidsky answered, "Yes! If he is a Nukhba, everything is legitimate to do! Everything!"
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who is responsible for the prisons, called for the rapists to be released, referring to them as "our best heroes".
Echoing widespread sentiment, Israeli journalist Yehuda Schlesinger of the newspaper Israel Hayom said in regard to the gang rape: "The only thing that is a problem for me here is that it's not a regulated policy of the state to abuse the detainees because first of all, they deserve it and it's great revenge that we need to give them. It's just a shame that we don't do it in an institutionalized way as part of regulations for torture of prisoners."
Others have claimed this idea that raping prisoners is legitimate is part of Jewish law, some saying it is in the Talmud.
But that is a lie. No where in the Talmud does it say that it is permitted to rape prisoners.
Here we are with journalists, prominent politicians, and mobs asserting that rape is legitimate and permissible.
I not only do not consider gang rape either legitimate nor permissible, I also know the Talmud does not in fact say that it is legitimate or permissible. Claiming it says that is blasphemy, heresy, and actual blood libel. Those that are claiming that gang rape is permissible have absolutely definitely committed a blood libel which endangers Jews worldwide. Some claim that those who are speaking out against atrocities are antisemitic. I will happily accept this label if that is to be the definition. However I believe that it is the people defending rape and claiming rape is a Jewish value who are the real antisemites and are enemies of Judaism.