One of the certificates of confidentiality
Thursday, July 10, 2025, 14:32 After months of legal persecution, the trial of the five IDF Unit 100 soldiers indicted in the Sde Teiman case opened on Monday at the Military Court in Beit Lid with the first arraignment. Honenu Attorneys Adi Keidar, Nati Rom, and Moshe Poleski are representing two of the soldiers. At the request of the GSS and the Military Advocate for Operational Affairs Defense Minister Yisrael Katz signed three certificates of confidentiality regarding the investigative material in the case.
The certificates allow the Military Advocate General not to disclose certain parts of the investigative material to the attorneys representing the soldiers. Some of the material likely pertains to the terrorist who filed the complaint against the soldiers. Two of the certificates cite evidence confidential for “reasons of national security.” The third is a “certificate of confidential evidence liable to damage the public interest.”
Attorney Keidar strongly objected to the certificates: “The Military Advocate General continues to engage in problematic conduct, to put it mildly. We found out that certificates of confidentiality have been issued, and we do not yet know what they entail. The Military Advocate General is supposed to send us, the soldiers’ attorneys, a summary of the material comprising the foundation of the evidence, so that we can prepare our defense. In the meantime, it is not clear what is going on. It could be that they (the office of the Military Advocate General) are still protecting the despicable terrorist, whom they consider to be the victim in the case.”
The attorneys requested all of the evidence in the case: “We told the court that until we receive all of the evidence and all of the assessments from all of the investigative committees, regarding both the leaks to the media and the unauthorized interview by a major news channel of an investigator who did not adhere to the facts, and all of the findings concerning both of those incidents, we will not proceed, and we will not advance the case at all.”
In July 2024, ten combat soldiers from IDF 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). The soldiers, who were guarding the murderous Hamas terrorists, were called to conduct a body search on one of the prisoners. The terrorist, who had served as a terrorist company commander in Jabalia, attacked the soldiers during the search, and then accused them of assault. Of the ten soldiers who were detained, five were released within a month, while the remaining five soldiers were charged with assault.
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.