How Israeli soldiers raped a girl, then told her they were digging her grave. They received no real punishment. "On 12 August 1949, patrolling near the armistice line, soldiers came across three Palestinians, two men and a girl. The Israeli records of the atrocity that followed exist only because the soldiers were court-martialled, though the trial took place behind closed doors, and the files only recently released. The story resurfaced in 2003. The court records do not mention any details about the victims. It described them as Bedouins but neither names them nor says where they came from.105  In her short novel Minor Detail, Palestinian writer Adania Shibli recounted the incident from the perspective of the nameless girl.106  The court records have the soldiers shooting at the camels and one of the men – the escape – and abducting the girl. The soldiers brought the girl to the base, washed her in an outdoor shower, and chopped off her hair. The commander asked the soldiers to vote on her fate. The unit decided that she was to be raped and murdered. According to the trial testimony of one of the participants, most of the unit members took turns raping the girl, then drove her outside the base, stopped and started digging a shallow hole. In the trial one of the soldiers testified that the girl asked what they were doing and was told that they were digging her grave. The soldiers shot her – the court transcripts recorded the time of the execution as between 7.30 and 8 a.m. – and placed her body in the shallow grave. They scattered some sand over the body and later, at the request of one of the soldiers who worried that she might not have been ‘fully killed’, returned to shoot her again through the sand.107  Twenty of the soldiers who took part in the rape, including the platoon commander, stood trial and were given light sentences, commuted on appeal." Ungrounding, Eyal Weizman