Honenu Attorneys Rom (L) and Keidar (R); Photo credit: Honenu
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 10:22 Today, the soldiers who were detained last Monday at the Sde Teiman military base on suspicion of assaulting a Nukhba terrorist prisoner will be brought to a hearing at the Beit Lid Military Court. Honenu Attorneys Adi Keidar and Nati Rom are representing some of the soldiers and will demand their immediate release.
Leading up to the hearing, Attorney Rom 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.”
Attorney Rom made a statement prior to the hearing: “After the declaration by the Military Advocate General that the alleged crimes are being investigated by different departments, it seems that a just solution is to release the soldiers to house arrest and not keep them behind bars. We hope that their families will be allowed to attend a hearing for the first time and meet their loved ones. The decision that has as of now prevented them from meeting each other is unusual.”
Attorney Keidar added, “We hope that this remand will be canceled quickly. It seems that the Military Advocate General and the military court are operating as if there is no war and their main aim is to placate the Chief Military Advocate, Major-General Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi. The soldiers’ detention should be canceled immediately. The investigation can be continued while they are released.”
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.