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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.

It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.

I'm Tim Franks.

We're beginning with a story which is remarkable, potentially very significant and, I'm afraid, a bit convoluted.

But that's our job to straighten the twists and undo the knots.

The top line today is this, that the former top lawyer in the Israeli military has been ordered to remain in custody until Wednesday

as she faces potential charges over leaking of video,

which allegedly shows the severe abuse of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli military prison guards.

There's no question that Major General Yifat Tomear Yer Yerushalmi did leak the video, she admitted as much in her resignation last week.

But why she did so, what the video seems to show the political reaction inside Israel, the claims and counterclaims,

about how the Israeli military behaves and how it investigates itself, well, all these are causing very deep

ructions. Let's begin then with trying to straighten the story out. And to do so, we'll go back

to where it begins in the middle of last year with our correspondent in Jerusalem, Sebastian

Asha. There had been reports that a Palestinian detainee had been severely abused.

He had to be taken for treatment for his injuries.

What the Israeli authorities have since said,

his rectum was punctured by a sharp object.

He had other injuries too.

And then in the following month in August, a video was broadcast on an Israeli TV station, Channel 12,

which shows what is purportedly the incident.

What it doesn't show because the soldiers involved essentially conceal what's going on with their riot shields is exactly what did transpire.

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