Israel detains thousands of army deserters every year
by aletho
MEMO | April 21, 2014
The Israel Defence Forces detain nearly 22,000 deserters and "undisciplined soldiers" every year, Haaretz newspaper revealed on Sunday. The paper said that nearly 13,000 of the soldiers are detained in army prisons while the rest are held inside military bases.
The
paper quoted data from the Military Police, which revealed that around
400 escape attempts, rebellions and acts of violence occur inside army
prisons annually. At least 13,452 soldiers were detained in 2013; 76 per
cent of them were charged with evading military service, while 18 per
cent were soldiers classified as "undisciplined" and 6 per cent had
committed criminal offences.
According
to the data, 13 per cent of detained soldiers are of Ethiopian origin
although they represent only 3 per cent of the total personnel in the
IDF.
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