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Israel: IDF Soldiers Will Not Be Interrogated by the FBI
(Ha'aretz) Jack Khoury - Israeli Prime Mnister Yair Lapid said Tuesday that "Israeli soldiers won't be investigated by the FBI, nor by any other foreign authority or country, as friendly as they may be." Lapid said that Israel "will not abandon its soldiers to foreign investigations," and that Israel had "conveyed its fierce protestations to the Americans in the appropriate channels. The IDF is a moral and ethical army...committed to the values and laws of democracy." Any "unusual incident" is "thoroughly investigated." Israeli officials believe that the U.S. investigation is a symbolic statement, Israeli sources told Ha'aretz, and claim that an investigation is unlikely to go forward without approval from the U.S. State Department and Israeli consent.