JERUSALEM — Lawyers for a group of Israeli reserve soldiers charged with the grave abuse of a Palestinian detainee called Sunday for the trial to be dismissed, saying the legal process had been sullied.

Their demands, delivered at a news conference, followed an admission by the military’s chief legal officer that she had authorized a leak of surveillance video of the alleged abuse to local news media, further politicizing a fraught case that has rocked Israel and caused an international uproar.

The legal officer, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the military advocate general, resigned Friday. Tomer-Yerushalmi disappeared for hours Sunday, prompting a search by police who said there had been fears for her life after her car was located near a beach north of Tel Aviv. Hours later she was

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