JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Two years after it was posted on YouTube, a video that appears to show an Israeli soldier dancing around a blindfolded and bound Palestinian woman detainee has gone viral on the Internet.
The incident, whose authenticity could not be determined independently, has drawn more than 400,000 views on YouTube over the past two days.
In the blurry, 75-second video, which might have been filmed on a cellphone, a man wearing sunglasses and the uniform of an Israeli sergeant dances to Arabic music around a blindfolded and bound woman in a Muslim headscarf and black robe.
The clip shows a mocking dance, seemingly aimed at humiliating the detainee.
According to a Palestinian woman who told Reuters on Wednesday she was the prisoner, it happened in 2007 at an army camp in the occupied West Bank, at the start of a two-year detention for membership in the militant Islamic Jihad group.
First posted on YouTube by “eyalx16” on April 20, 2008, the video had gone largely unnoticed until Israel’s Channel 10 TV aired it on Monday during a programme featuring odd clips from the Internet.
