Israel’s Courts Administration approved private representation for the Nukhba terrorists who massacred and tortured over 1,000 Israelis on October 7th and approved funding their defense attorneys from taxpayers’ money, Kan News reported on Tuesday evening.
According to the report, the Courts Administration approved private representation for the Nukhba terrorists and demanded that the Justice Ministry provide the funds for the defense attorneys.
Israel’s Public Defender’s Office has refused to represent the Nukhba terrorists, saying that the appropriate solution is to find foreign lawyers to represent them, as was done in the Eichmann trial.
Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara opposed a bill proposed in January by the chairman of the Knesset’s Law Committee, MK Simcha Rothman, to withhold public legal representation from the Nukhba terrorists.
Channel 13 News reported two months ago that hundreds of Nukhba terrorists met with Israeli lawyers for legal advice.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded to the report, stating: “The Finance Ministry will not allocate even one shekel to this severe move.”
Smotrich also wrote an urgent letter, forbidding his ministry officials from providing any funding for this purpose. “This is about a loss of values. The citizens of Israel will not finance legal defense for such despicable enemies,” he wrote, adding that such a move is especially outrageous at a time when Israel is struggling to finance the needs of its citizens during wartime.
Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s response was: “Enough! I stand by the decision which was made at the start of the war, the Justice Ministry will not finance this, the Public Defender’s Office will not represent the Nukhba terrorists.”
In the wake of the public’s outrage, the Courts Administration responded that Israeli law requires suspects to have legal representation in order to appear in court and the funds must come from the state treasury.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
Tzedek tzedek tirdof.
It’s the same as US taxpayers fund the defense of illegal immigrants and other criminals
What?!?! Let all their supporters donate
Let the Bagatz defend them probono.
It’s time for a Guantanamo-like work camp somewhere in tge Negev.
The Israeli army (wisely) does not spend a lot of time determining in a military age individual is a soldier (terrorist) or non-combatant who happened to live in the area. The people they are fighting are known to run into an apartment building, ditch their weapons, and pretend to be non-combatants. The Israelis “round up all the usual suspects” (the safest thing to do) to let it get sorted out later. Thus it is quite reasonable for the Israelis to provide some sort of hearing (probably similar to an American military commission) to decide if the individual was a terrorist, and to be fair, they need to provide (or at least, allow) lawyers.
Insanity! How anyone can even sit and look at these animals is beyond me! We keep seeing why Israel desperately needed and needs judicial reform. These stupid “courts” have no limits.
Oh, so the rishanta takes money allocated for Yeshivos and uses it to defend the terrorists who killed, beheaded, tortured and took our citizens hostage… how backward does our world get??? All in the e name of justice…