The former top legal officer in Israel's military has been arrested after admitting that she authorized the leak of a video that appears to show Israeli soldiers attacking a Palestinian detainee in a detention facility last year.

Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi served as Military Advocate General of the Israel Defense Forces until Friday, Oct. 31, when she admitted in a resignation letter to having approved the leak of the video clip to Israeli media.

She called her actions, "an attempt to counter the false propaganda directed against the military law enforcement authorities," following a backlash by members of Israel's far-right against her department's investigation into alleged abuse of a Palestinian prisoner.

Israeli media have reported that Tomer-Yerushalmi is set to be questi

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