Israel Calls Off Raid After Soldier’s Facebook Post
The Israeli military called off a raid on a West Bank town after a soldier posted on his Facebook page that his combat unit was going to “clean up” the area, Haaretz reports.
“‘On Wednesday we clean up Qatanah, and on Thursday, god willing, we come home,’” he wrote, according to the Israeli paper. He also posted details such as the time and place of the planned operation. The soldier was reported by his friends, court-martialed and sentenced to 10 days in prison, the Associated Press writes, adding that the Israeli military is “cracking down on soldiers’ use of social networking Web sites.”
