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."
