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Sunday, May 26, 2019
IDF suspends soldier filmed setting Palestinian field ablaze while on leave earlier this month
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Israeli settler filmed earlier this month setting a Palestinian field on fire in the northern West Bank was an off-duty soldier on weekend leave from the army, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
Last week, the B’Tselem rights group released footage of the May 17 incident in which an Israeli settler, armed with a Tavor rifle, is seen bending down to a field belonging to farmers from the village of Urif, near the Yitzhar settlement and igniting a brush fire.
The IDF says it has suspended the soldier from his combat unit and the police have opened an investigation into the incident.
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