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The Israeli military's top lawyer cites "exceptional circumstances" for dropping the case involving a Palestinian man held at Sde Teiman military prison.
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The alleged incident at Sde Teiman military prison in July 2024, which was partially caught on CCTV, left the detainee needing hospital treatment for internal injuries. The soldiers were charged with aggravated abuse and causing serious bodily harm, which they denied.
The military said the indictments were withdrawn in part due to "exceptional circumstances that negatively affected the ability to prosecute the case while also preserving the right for a fair trial of the defendants".
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the decision.
But the move was condemned by human rights activists, who say abuse of Palestinians is systematic in Israeli jails and rarely investigated properly.
Warning: this story contains a description of alleged sexual abuse
A military prison was set up at Sde Teiman after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023 to hold Palestinians detained during the ensuing war in Gaza.
In August 2024, an Israeli TV channel broadcast leaked CCTV video that allegedly showed soldiers serving as guards at the prison abusing a detainees.
In the footage, a group of guards can be seen pushing the detainee against a wall before shielding him from view with their riot shields.
Five guards were later accused of "acting against the detainee with severe violence, including stabbing the detainee's bottom with a sharp object, which had penetrated near the detainee's rectum", according to a statement from the military at the time. The detainee suffered "cracked ribs, a punctured lung and an inner rectal tear".
It later emerged the CCTV video had been leaked by the then-Israeli Military Advocate General, Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, leading to her resignation and arrest.
In her resignation letter, Tomer-Yerushalmi said she had approved the leak "in an attempt to counter false propaganda against the army's law enforc
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