Five officers from Eilat's Yasam riot police unit were arrested and questioned on suspicion of assaulting a man after women complained to them about him on the city's promenade, the Ynet news site reported this evening.
According to the allegations, the officers left the man wounded on Eilat's beach after the incident.
The man, a 38-year-old from the Hebrew Israelite community, said he was beaten by the officers and then abandoned at the scene while bleeding. "I thought I was going to die there," he said.
Footage released shows the man being led by the officers while handcuffed. He claims that at a later stage, he was violently attacked by them. The circumstances of the incident are now being examined as part of the investigation into the five officers.
