Former IDF Soldier Confirms Dogs Used to Sexually Threaten Palestinian Prisoners

What was said

"One of them said he'd heard talk about it. Hadn't seen it. The other one said that he had seen it. They were talking about having the detainee be sort of exposed and having the dog sort of seem like it was about to mount him. So a very disturbing, threatening kind of thing."

Former IDF soldier and whistleblower Shaiel Ben-Ephraim corroborated Nick Kristof's reporting by confirming that two Israeli prison guards he interviewed described dogs being used to sexually threaten Palestinian detainees. One guard witnessed the abuse directly, while another heard about it secondhand. Ben-Ephraim stated that multiple IDF officers and prison service members are aware of the practice, though he could not confirm whether penetration occurred.