The IDF disciplined several soldiers after an incident over the weekend in which they were filmed beating up a Palestinian protester in the Jilazoun Refugee Camp near Ramallah.
One soldier was recorded calling the Palestinian by a swear word and was denied leave for 30 days. Two soldiers filmed beating up the man were given a suspended sentence of 28 days in a military jail. The platoon commander was reprimanded by the commander of the Kfir Brigade.
The military decided not to open a Military Police investigation against the soldiers but instead swiftly tried them in their unit and took disciplinary measures against them.
The Kfir Brigade commander, Col. Asher Ben Lulu, said the incident took place at the end of a violent protest in which Palestinians hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at the soldiers and after the commanding officer at the scene was hit in the face by a rock.
Ben Lulu said the Palestinian seen in the clip created a deliberate provocation when he ignored their calls to stop approaching and grabbed the gun of one of them.
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