Former Israeli Soldier Alleges Systematic Abuse of Palestinian Detainees on Piers Morgan
May 18, 2026
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“A lot of people in these prisons, both members of the prison service and IDF officers… are completely aware of the use of dogs.”
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a former Israeli soldier and whistleblower, speaking to Piers Morgan, detailed the sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons
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English Script:
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim: Nick Kristof is working in an environment we can’t investigate properly because the authorities are letting him. So he’s doing the best he can as a journalist in order to force the authorities to investigate. And that’s the whole point here. There have been absolutely no convictions, no serious investigations into any cases of wrongdoing. Not only has no one been imprisoned, but no one’s even been removed from their jobs, despite one investigation into a murder and another investigation into a brutal sexual assault. So what Kristof is doing is he’s going into an environment where the authorities are no way willing to cooperate and breaking the lid of silence. And that’s not the same as a commission that has the cooperation of the authorities, that has the cooperation of the military that’s in control of the area and is able to do that kind of forensic evidence. What’s most striking and amazing about what kristof did is that he managed to get the survivors of sexual abuse to talk on the record, with their faces exposed in some cases in the video, which to me was absolutely incredible, because you have to keep in mind that in Palestinian culture, if you’ve experienced sexual abuse that has a stigma of shame, that is far, far greater than in Western society. I mean, we have it too. In the West, we have in Israel, in the United States, but there’s no comparison to the Palestinians. And I know that their families are being harmed in their status as a result, but they felt that they needed to speak out despite the incredible damage that this could do to them personally. So when I first read about dogs being used to sexually assault victims in these prisons, I didn’t believe it. Of course, at the time, I didn’t believe that Israel was committing many of the crimes that it later turned out that it was. So I talked to guards in Sde Teiman, first time in June 2025. And I didn’t even ask about that because that didn’t seem realistic to me. But then I kept hearing more and more reports of this, and I talked to someone in Gaza who had been in one of these camps, and they told me that this had occurred. So I asked the two guards that I had talked to if that had actually happened. One of them said he’d heard talk about it, hadn’t seen it. The other one said that he had seen it. Now it has to be said that the guard who said that he had seen it wasn’t speaking about penetration or anything like that. They were talking about, having the detainee be sort of, exposed and having the dog sort of seemed like it was about to mount him. So a very disturbing, threatening kind of thing. So all this talks about what has been penetration or not. I don’t know if there has been or hasn’t been, but this guard saw them using a dog in a sexually threatening way. And the other one, it was just hearsay. A lot of people in these prisons, both members of the Prison Service and IDF officers and people who served on the ground there. One of them was just a reserve officer serving there who usually did combat duty, are completely aware of the use of dogs. And, you know, Kristoff said that there’s no evidence that there’s orders from above to do these sorts of things. But honestly, I would be shocked if they weren’t getting orders from their immediate superiors.
