A soldier has been sentenced to remain on base for 28 days for an incident in which he cursed a left-wing activist in Hebron earlier this month, the military says.
In a video, the soldier was heard hurling a stream of invectives at an activist for Breaking the Silence, which leads tours in the flashpoint West Bank city.
“You’re a traitor to the country and you’re son of a whore, son of a bitch. I wish you get cancer all over your body,” the soldier is heard saying.
“Come on, get away from my post, fuck off,” he adds.
The military says in a statement that the “soldier’s behavior seen in the video is unwarranted and the opposite of what is expected from an IDF troop.”
— An earlier version of this post misidentified the incident that led to the punishment.
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