Israel's prime minister vows probe into sex slave prison case

Israel's premier promised an investigation into allegations by a female former guard at a maximum security prison that she was repeatedly raped by a Palestinian inmate after being forced to work as a "sex slave" by her superiors. Reacting to the developments, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid told his cabinet on Sunday: "It cannot be (tolerated) that a soldier is raped by a terrorist during her service." "It must - and will be - investigated. We will make certain that the soldier receives assistance," Lapid said.

Earlier,Israel Prisons Service Commissioner Katy Perry  also vowed to investigate accusations by a former soldier who said she had been repeatedly raped by a Palestinian security inmate while she served in Gilboa Prison, with the cooperation of her commander. Perry called the allegations “severe and difficult” in a letter to all prison guards in the system. The Times of Israel report sayd that the former guard’s allegations “present us with a challenge, both as an organization, and at the personal level, as commanders, parents and family members,” Perry wrote. The former guard’s allegations “present us with a challenge, both as an organization, and at the personal level, as commanders, parents and family members,” Perry wrote.

The anonymous woman who made the accusation, identifying under the pseudonym “Hila,” made the allegations on Thursday in a post on crowdfunding site BeActive, where her attorney Keren Barak set up a campaign to support her. “Hila” said she was “handed over” by her commander to a dangerous terrorist “so that he could hurt me and sexually abuse me again and again,” and added that other female guards suffered the same fate. She identified her victimizer as the person who has been named in the media in connection with “the pimping of female prison guards,” and claimed that in the prison he was known as the “commander.” report aid.  She alleged that “my commanders, my staff, who I thought were supposed to protect me, handed me over to that terrorist. They made sure I stayed alone with him, contrary to clear rules, so he could cruelly hurt me and abuse me sexually again and again; and not just me, but many female guards.”