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Three Caracal soldiers left unarmed outside their base as punishment

Company and battalion commanders intentionally leave the three soldiers outside the base as punishment for suspected drug use; military attorneys intervene and get the three onto a nearby base for the night.

Three soldiers from the Caracal Battalion were left outside their base overnight—without weapons—on the Egyptian border on the orders of their commander.

 

 

The incident began when the three soldiers in the mixed-gender battalion were suspected of drug use, before being detained by the Military Police Corps' Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for questioning and eventually sent back to their base.

 

Photo: Yoav Zitun (Photo: Yoav Zitun)
Photo: Yoav Zitun

 

Upon arriving at their base around midnight, their company commander decided that the three soldiers should remain outside without their weapons, which had been taken from them.

 

At this point, ten other soldiers defiantly left the base against the orders of the company commander in order to support the three stranded outside the base. The standoff ended when the three consulted with their attorneys at the Military Advocate General, who ultimately got them on another nearby base for the night.

 

In a letter sent to the Military Advocate General, Brig. Gen. Sharon Afek, defense attorneys demanded that a criminal investigation be opened against the company commander and the battalion commander, claiming that the three soldiers were left in danger.

 

"This is a base on the Egyptian border, a few hundred meters from the fence, when the soldiers' arms were taken from them beforehand," the defense attorneys wrote. "The soldiers had to wait at the entrance to the base with all their personal equipment, in the desert, for a long time. We believe that the action of the commanders placed the soldiers in real mortal danger, which without proper intervention could have ended in disaster," they concluded.

 

"I'm just in shock. I don't understand how a commander dares leave three unarmed soldiers 400 meters from the border," said one of the three soldiers. "Every night there is something that happens. This is one of the hottest areas in the Middle East, the Sinai border, where ISIS is."

 


פרסום ראשון: 05.14.17, 11:35
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