Honenu Attorneys Rom (L) and Keidar (R); Photo credit: Honenu
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 21:33 On Sunday, a hearing for the soldiers detained at the Sde Teiman Military Base on suspicion of assaulting a Nukhba terrorist prisoner was held at the Beit Lid Military Court. Honenu Attorneys Adi Keidar and Nati Rom demanded the immediate release of the soldiers whom they are representing. Other soldiers are being represented by defense attorneys from the Military Advocate General.
Military Judge Lieutenant Colonel Toby Hart partially accepted a request from the prosecution department of the Military Advocate General and extended the remand of the soldiers by only two days. In his decision, Judge Hart cited that progress in the investigation will probably lead to consideration of the soldiers’ release from remand on Tuesday.
After the decision was announced, Honenu Attorneys Adi Keidar and Nati Rom stated, “The convoluted and overly-complex decision by the court stems from the difficulty of the system to make a bold, but necessary, decision to immediately release the remaining five detained soldiers. We hope that the reduction of the remand period and Judge Hart’s remarks were sufficient to bring the Military Advocate General to the understanding that there is no need to continue the remand and it will be canceled.”
Prior to the hearing Attorneys Rom and Keidar made statements. Attorney Rom also wrote an urgent letter to the military court demanding that the detained soldiers’ families be allowed to attend the hearing: “The State that is willing to accept the sight of terrorists’ mothers embracing their children in courtrooms can and must make more of an effort to allow the soldiers’ families to stand by their children – literally – as the soldiers are, unfortunately, led into hearings.”
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.
Last Tuesday, 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.