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What happened in Hebron is very serious…There was an initial inquiry on Thursday, and the bottom line that emerged was that this was an incident of a soldier who did something wrong, not of a hero…The person who decided to make this a criminal investigation was the brigade commander, and this was even before the film was released. Since then, an Investigative Military Police investigation has been taking place. It was important for us to say right away how we, the chief of staff, the defense minister and the prime minister, view this incident. We are not like the other [Palestinian] side. All this fiery language and this false information and the manipulations and the attacks on the chief of staff [are out of place]. (Defence Minister Yaalon in the Knesset)