Military judge upholds Hebron soldier’s open detention

5 April 2016, 8:53 pm

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The military appeals court in Tel Aviv upholds this evening the open detention for an IDF soldier who shot a wounded Palestinian assailant in Hebron on March 24.

IDF prosecutors appealed the soldier’s open detention on an undisclosed military base, asking for the soldier, who faces manslaughter charges for the shooting, to be placed in a military jail for the duration of the trial.

The judge says in his decision that the soldier’s version of events, according to which he feared the Palestinian assailant, who had minutes earlier stabbed and wounded another IDF soldier, may have carried an explosive belt, was not beyond the realm of possibility.