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            Israel Punishes 2 Soldiers for Burning Palestinian Flag

   by VOA News

   The Israeli military punished two soldiers for burning a Palestinian
   flag taken Wednesday from a car in the West Bank.

   The army said one of the soldiers was sentenced to 20 days in a
   military jail while the other was ordered confined to his base for 28
   days.

   Palestinian witnesses said the soldiers were stopping cars at a
   checkpoint near the West Bank town of Nablus when they pulled a flag
   from one of the vehicles, dropped it to the ground and set in on fire
   with a lighter.

   An Israeli military spokesman called the incident "an unusual one in
   which the forces acted against what was expected of them, against the
   orders of their commanders."
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