 On March 12, 2010, the Israel Defense Forces prosecution filed indictments against two staff sergeants of the Givati Brigade for forcing a 9-year-old Palestinian boy to open a number of bags they thought might contain explosives in January 2009.The boy told he was hit by the soldiers and forced to work for them at gunpoint.The IDF said it opened the investigation after the incident was brought to its attention by the United Nations.