Another soldier from the Givati Brigade was arrested on suspicion of beating a Palestinian detainee on Monday. The Southern Command Military Court extended his remand for four days while Military Police investigate the incident.
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He is accused of being involved in the abuse of a Palestinian who was hit in the head repeatedly with a blunt object while he was held at a military facility in the West Bank.
During the court proceeding on Monday, it came to light that the Palestinian detainee in question also had his wooden prayer beads stolen form him during the incident.
The first soldier to be arrested in the case
maintains his innocence in the matter.
Capt. Yotam Har-Zion and Capt. Sebastian Osovsky, who spoke on behalf of the two soldiers in court, maintained that the soldiers did not hit the Palestinian man.
Ilan Katz, the second soldier's defense attorney, claimed that since the Palestinian was blindfolded at the time of the incident, the injuries he received could have been inflicted if he had fallen or tripped.
He also noted that the man's injuries occurred right before he was to undergo a brief medical examination and it would thus be illogical for the soldiers to abuse him when they knew he was about to be examined.
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