A VIDEO of an Israeli soldier dancing around a bound and blindfolded female Palestinian prisoner had more than 40,000 viewings hits on YouTube, with the army branding the commando's actions as shameful.
The clip, screened on Monday on private Channel 10 television, shows a soldier gyrating to a rhythmic drumbeat of an Arabic track as the woman, who is wearing a headscarf, huddles against a wall, her hands bound in front of her and her eyes bound with a white cloth.
The soldier, who is wearing sunglasses and grinning broadly, repeatedly brushes up close to the woman who has a Hebrew speech bubble coming out of her mouth reading "Allahu Akbar" - Arabic for "God is greatest."
Crudely captioned "israeli soldier catch arab terrorist (he dance on haer) funny" the clip lasts just over a minute.
The video was slammed by the Palestinian Authority as "deeply offensive to the dignity of women."
"This is a disgusting illustration of the sick mentality of the occupier. This is not an isolated incident," said a strongly-worded statement from the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
In response, the army condemned the clip and said the military police had opened an investigation into what it described as an "isolated" incident.
"The IDF
denounces actions such as those depicted in the videos," it said referring to an unspecified number of video clips.
Exposure of the video came just six weeks after an Israeli soldier sparked widespread outrage by posting pictures of herself smiling and larking around next to blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian prisoners.
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