Honenu Attorneys Rom (L) and Keidar (R); Photo credit: Honenu
Monday, July 7, 2025, 10:02 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. After months of legal persecution, today (Monday), their trial will open 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.
Honenu Attorney Poleski; Photo credit: Honenu
Before the scheduled arraignment, the attorneys stated, “At a time that the State of Israel is at an advanced stage of negotiations for the release of hundreds, possibly thousands, of murderous terrorists [in exchange for the hostages being held in the Gaza Strip] the military prosecution authorities still find the time to put on trial soldiers who reported to reserve duty, left their homes and risked their lives, and were ordered to guard Hamas terrorists imprisoned on the Sde Teiman military base. The State of Israel readily releases terrorists, but the soldiers, IDF soldiers from Unit 100 and others, they put on trial. What a disgrace. The soldiers should never have been indicted. We will act with all legal means at our disposal to expunge this case.”
After the Unit 100 soldiers were detained in July 2024, an investigation was launched by the Military Criminal Investigation Division, and the case was placed under a gag order. The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation violated the gag order by not obscuring the soldiers’ faces in a Channel 13 news report. In addition, video clips and investigative material were leaked from the IDF to Guy Peleg, a journalist with Channel 12, who later aired a report in which he claimed that the soldiers sodomized the Nukhba terrorist.
In late 2024, Honenu Attorneys Menashe Yado and Nati Rom filed an NIS 600,000 civil suit at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court for violation of privacy against the IDF and the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of two of the soldiers who were detained and whose faces were revealed in the leaked recording. In April 2025, Honenu Attorneys Menashe Yado and Nati Rom filed an amended statement of claim with the Jerusalem Magistrates Court, adding Guy Peleg and Channel 12 as defendants in the suit, and raising the requested sum to NIS two million.
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.