Jerusalem:
In yet another embarrassment for Israeli army, a new video that surfaced on YouTube shows one of its soldiers dancing around a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian woman, close on the heels of global outrage over a trooper posting on Facebook photos of her smiling next to bound Palestinian prisoners.
Watch the video here.Israel's Channel 10 television caught hold of the clip on the internet in which the handcuffed and blindfolded woman is leaning on a wall, while a soldier wearing glasses performs belly dancing moves around her with his comrades cheering him on and videotaping the "show."
The Israeli Defence Force's (IDF's) internal investigation department has ordered an immediate probe into the matter.
"The IDF condemns this kind of activity, as shown in the video clips, and has worked and is working to eradicate it via briefings to soldiers, instructions to commanders, military orders and punishment where necessary. The clips do not depict the norm, but rather, are anomalies," the army said.
A number of Israeli soldiers have over the last year faced investigation and penalty for documenting themselves performing questionable acts in front of Palestinian prisoners.
A former woman soldier, Eden Abergil, raised eyebrows worldwide in August by posting pictures of herself beside a bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner on her Facebook page.
A comment attached to one of the photos, under the title IDF the best time of my life, showing the soldier smiling in front of two blindfolded men, said "That looks really sexy for you," with Abergil's response reading: "I wonder if he is on Facebook too I'll have to tag him in the photo."
Another comment allegedly added by the woman soldier to her Facebook page later said that she would "gladly kill Arabs even slaughter them."
"In war there are no rules," Abergil allegedly wrote on the wall of her profile page.
Days later, three Israeli soldiers were arrested taking photographs of themselves alongside cuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainees using their cellphones.