Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot was questioned under caution by police on  Tuesday over his role in last year’s break-in to the IDF’s Sde Teiman military base.

Sukkot was summoned in October by the Southern District police’s fraud division and agreed to present himself to investigators.

The far-right lawmaker was among a mob that rioted outside the base in July 2024, demanding Military Police release the soldiers they had arrested on suspicion of severely abusing a Gazan detainee held there. Five IDF reservists were indicted earlier this year over the alleged abuse.

Upon arrival at the station in Beersheba on Tuesday, Sukkot railed against his interrogation, calling it a political stunt to distract attention from police’s other Sde Teiman-related probe — into the leaking of footage last year that was said to document the soldiers’ abuse.

The MK told reporters before heading in for questioning that the summons he received was an attempt by law enforcement to “obscure the crimes committed in the prosecutor’s office.”

He was referring to the leak probe, whose prime suspect is former military advocate general Maj. Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who confessed she passed the footage to the media.

“I came to Sde Teiman to defend our soldiers against a large and powerful system. I have said more than........

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