Thursday, January 30, 2025, 12:14 The Military Advocate General requested a two-week extension of the restrictive conditions imposed on the combat soldiers from IDF Unit 100 who were detained on the Sde Teiman military base on suspicion of assaulting a Nukhba terrorist prisoner in July 2024 who took part in the Simhat Torah massacre (October 7). The conditions include a foreign travel ban and passport confiscation. Today (Thursday), simultaneous with the release of hundreds of terrorists in the hostage deal, the Beit Lid Military Court agreed to the request. Honenu Attorneys Adi Keidar, Nati Rom, and Moshe Poleski, who are representing some of the soldiers, opposed the request.
Attorney Rom stated, “It is regrettable that at a time that hundreds of terrorists are being released, the Military Advocate General persists in harassing heroic soldiers by unjustifiably drawing out legal proceedings and violating human rights.”
Honenu Attorney Nati Rom (Hebrew); Video credit: Honenu
Attorney Keidar added, “The very existence of a hearing on the question of continuing to hold the heroic soldiers’ passports is crazy, baseless, and exemplifies the petty and unprofessional approach of the Military Advocate General. The soldiers have families, and it is obvious to anyone with any sense that they have no intention to leave the country but rather to stay and defend their innocence. We are in agreement that there are no grounds to indict the soldiers. This case should be closed.”
Prior to the hearing, Attorneys Keidar, Poleski, and Rom issued a statement: “It would be best for the Military Advocate General to thoroughly examine the claims presented during the hearings, and then come to the conclusion that the correct decision is to immediately close the case and end this sad chapter. Instead of giving clear answers about the leaks that defamed the soldiers and slandered the State of Israel, the Military Advocate General is wasting precious time on pointless hearings.”
In July 2024, ten combat soldiers from Unit 100 were detained at the Sde Teiman military base on suspicion of assaulting a Nukhba terrorist prisoner who took part in the Simhat Torah massacre (October 7). Five of the soldiers were released within a month. The remaining five soldiers were held in remand for over a month, and after their release were placed under nighttime house arrest. In September 2024 they were allowed to return to work, and in November 2024 they were released from nighttime house arrest.
In light of the media leak in the case, the Beit Lid Military Court of Appeals ruled that, “The Military Advocate General is required to promptly reply to the question of how investigative material reached the news media, in light of the claims of possible damage to the integrity of the investigation.”
Attorney Rom wrote a letter to the Attorney General demanding that she order an investigation into the leak and put those responsible for it on trial. The Attorney General replied that she had transferred the handling of the investigation to the IDF.
Following the last house arrest extension, the Honenu Attorneys Rom and Keidar requested to receive the investigative material in the case from the military prosecution.
Please click here for a description by the detained Sde Teiman soldiers of the incident.
Please click here for a statement from Hila, the wife of one of the soldiers detained at the Sde Teiman military base on suspicion of assaulting a Nukhba terrorist, who leveled sharp criticism at the Military Advocate General over his detention.
On July 30, the court ignored the soldiers’ concerned families and held a hearing in their absence.
Initially, Honenu Attorneys Rom and Keidar were prevented on various pretexts from meeting with the detainees and granting them legal counsel.