US EditionIsrael arrests ex-military legal chief who leaked video showing abuse of Palestinian detainee
Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned after authorizing a video leak exposing severe abuse by soldiers, triggering charges against five reservists and widespread protests, officials said.
- The former top lawyer in the Israeli military has been arrested amid a political showdown related to a leaked video showing abuse of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers.
- Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned last week, stating she took full responsibility for the leak.
- Five reservists have been charged with aggravated abuse and causing serious bodily harm to the detainee after the video surfaced.
- The leaking of the video has been described by some on the right as a defamation of the Israeli military, equating to treason.
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Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, once Israel’s top military lawyer, is jailed after admitting to leaking a prison abuse video, a scandal that has shocked Israel and deepened its political divisions.
Tomer-Yerushalmi was forced to resign: I feared for our duty to investigate
Former Israeli Army Legal Chief Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who acknowledged having leaked a video in which soldiers sexually abuse a Palestinian person detained in Sde Teiman, will remain in prison until Wednesday after she was arrested this morning by the Israeli Police, as confirmed by a legal source to EFE. Tomer-Yerushalmi was arrested on suspicion of attempting to obstruct an investigation into the leak of the video last summer to the popular …
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