In order to know whether there’s exaggeration or not, here are the details:

The Military Advocate General herself, the army’s most senior jurist (and possibly other senior people in the military prosecution as well), personally asked for the videos to be leaked to a specific reporter, fully aware that he would make a huge sensational story out of it.

The claim was that they showed a rape. In the end it turned out there was no rape at all. And in any case, the videos show no evidence of rape, nor even violence, but rather a legitimate action by Force 100.

For two years the Military Advocate General lied brazenly to two chiefs of staff, two defense ministers, members of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and others, claiming she had no idea who the leaker was.
Only by chance did they uncover the leak during a routine Shin Bet investigation (they gave her spokeswoman a polygraph as part of screening her for a position in the Shin Bet), so after two years of lies, spare me the compliments about “taking responsibility.”

It’s important to note that we’re in an era in which the IDF is investigating itself and examining how October 7 happened to it (after all, Michi for example doesn’t believe there was divine intervention here, and everything is of course in human hands). If the army’s most senior jurist, a major general, smart and educated, a person who is supposed to be a symbol of integrity and fairness, lies brazenly and without blinking, what message does that send to IDF officers who are going through all these investigations and trying to get to the truth?
How can we trust the army?

More than 100 million people around the world watched the leaked videos. That certainly caused enormous damage to the state, to the army, and to Jews in general, and obviously many people think there was rape there, and it doesn’t matter how much we try to deny it now, even though all the facts support Force 100. And not to mention, of course, the enormous damage that was apparently caused to the hostages because of hasty conclusions + leaking videos and the claim that a “rape” was taking place there.

Because of the leak and the unnecessary, hasty accusations, the Force 100 soldiers (fighters who also volunteered to guard the terrorists) are in a very difficult mental state; they’re experiencing psychological crisis, family and social crises, and of course they sat in prison a long time, and it may very well have been for nothing.

And again, even if it turned out that there was indeed beating of a Hamas terrorist there, or use of unreasonable force, the distance between that and rape (which, as stated, did not happen) is enormous.

So much for exaggerations and so on.

You’re saying there was no violence at all, even though the indictment said there was severe violence, except that they dropped the rape component (and anyone who knows how a trial works isn’t necessarily surprised). Read the indictment and then see whether there was suspicion of excessive violence.
The person who was beaten was a Hamas man who worked in drug policing among Hamas members (not that I care — as far as I’m concerned, a Hamas collaborator can die a bizarre death, but there is some interest in not presenting things that way).
More than 100 million people did not watch the videos; a few million watched coverage of the whole affair, including the two weeks before the video was released.
Even before the video was released and the facts were clarified, Smotrich and co. decided it was a blood libel, and some of them even broke into a military base, while whipping up the broader public into a war against the authorities; under pressure, the Military Advocate General released the video — of course not justifiably. Until now it’s still not completely clear what is seen in the video.

You complain about lies, and tears stream from my eyes from all the excitement. I ask myself whether you live in this country and have seen who has been prime minister for 700 years, and whether his lies haven’t already destroyed the entire public service through his bad example. Your play-acting innocence is astonishing to me.