Overview
- Maj.-Gen. Yifat Tomer‑Yerushalmi submitted her resignation to Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir after acknowledging she approved providing the footage to the media to counter what she called false propaganda.
- The Military Police Criminal Investigation Division has opened a criminal probe into the leak, examining possible involvement by personnel from the Military Advocate General’s Office.
- The leaked video, published in August 2024, shows soldiers taking a blindfolded Palestinian detainee aside and obscuring their actions with shields; the prisoner suffered severe injuries and required hospitalization.
- At least nine soldiers were detained in the case, five were later indicted for severely abusing the detainee rather than rape, and the trial continues as a UN commission warned the downgraded charges could yield lighter sentences.
- Far-right ministers Itamar Ben‑Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich denounced investigators and the leakers, while longstanding allegations of systemic abuse at Sde Teiman continue to draw rights‑group scrutiny.