Israel arrests top military lawyer over leaked torture

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Israeli police arrested outgoing Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi and retired Colonel Matan Solomesh, the army’s former chief military prosecutor, as part of an inquiry into the leak of a video showing Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military prison in southern Israel, local media reported on Monday. Tomer-Yerushalmi was detained on suspicion of obstruction of