(Ynet News) Shosh Mula - Force 100 is the IDF unit responsible for handling unusual incidents involving Hamas's Nukhba terrorists imprisoned at the Sde Teiman base. The Nukhba led the attack on Israel on Oct. 7. Recently, some of the unit's soldiers were investigated after a complaint by a Nukhba terrorist. Five other fighters of the unit have provided a rare glimpse into what they do inside the terrorist detention facility. There are between 100 and 120 terrorists in each of the detention cells. Gideon (alias) said, "People don't get it. If it wasn't for us, the Nukhba terrorists would have surely raped soldiers - female and male - at Sde Teiman by now. Or the terrorists altogether would have risen up and hurt them, let alone kidnap and take them hostage for bargaining purposes." Yossi (alias) said, "It is possible that without us being here, there would have been a mass escape of hundreds of Nukhba terrorists to the area that borders Gaza." After Oct. 7, thousands of terrorists were captured in Israel. The Israel Prison Service was not equipped to house the overwhelming number of detainees, so a detention facility was opened at Sde Teiman, as had been done in previous wars with Hamas. The guarding and treatment of terrorists in Sde Teiman falls mainly on Military Police soldiers, who are not trained to deal with dangerous terrorists. The IDF feared - and rightly so - that extreme scenarios would develop in Sde Teiman, such as a mass escape, an uprising or the kidnapping of soldiers and taking them hostage. That is why it was necessary to establish a special force, trained for such scenarios. Yossi explained, "We are all fighters coming from special units, we went through tests and sorting, then intensive training for a month." Gideon said, "When we accept fighters into the unit, we instruct them to use reasonable force according to the regulations and laws, explaining what is allowed and what is not." Oren (alias) explains what they find while doing searches of prisoners: "We found steel, screws, pieces that they take apart from the showers, or pieces of thin plastic, which they sharpen to be used as weapons." Moshe (alias) added: "We also find thin pipes that they make from the wire fence they dismantle, transforming them into weapons, or steel with which they cut their own [zip-tie] handcuffs or create some kind of spikes." Gideon said, "We fear that at the moment of truth, the terrorists will take advantage of our weaknesses and slaughter the Military Police officers and everyone who happens to be in the area. And if they have not done it until today, it is only thanks to Force 100 and our deterrence....Everyone there has blood on their hands, they are well-trained terrorists who have undergone grueling training in the terrorist organizations specifically to perform these kinds of missions."
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