Six Israeli soldiers doing a dance routine while on patrol duty lucky to escape penalty

No 'jailhouse rock' for dancing soldiers

Six Israeli soldiers doing a dance routine while on patrol duty lucky to escape penalty

The party will continue for a group of Israeli soldiers whose choreographed dance in full combat gear became a YouTube hit, and became the subject of an army investigation.

The six soldiers have escaped being penalised after a video of them doing a dance routine while on duty in the tinderbox town of Hebron West Bank went viral in Israel.

Do the macarena: The military said that the video that shows six soldiers dancing to USu00a0 singer Kesha's dance hit Tik Tok was nothing but a stunt. YouTube grab

YouTube hit
The video shows the troops breaking into a choreographed dance routine, set to US electro-pop singer Kesha's dance hit Tik Tok. A Muslim call to prayer is heard while theu00a0 soldiers are patrolling and as the music changes they break into another dance. It was originally removed from YouTube, but has since reappeared. Initial reports said the six were facing disciplinary action, but the army later said the soldiers were just fooling around and no harm was done.

The YouTube user who originally posted the clip identified it as Battalion 50 Rock the Hebron Casbah, the
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. The video shows the six -- armed with assault rifles and kitted out in bulletproof vests -- doing a combination of the Macarena and the chicken dance to the catchy dance track, before twirling in pairs and skipping out of camera shot while holding hands.

After it was taken down, it was re-posted by a user who added the title, "It's easy to laugh at the occupation when you're the oppressor (and a douchebag)."

On Monday, Israeli TV stations picked up the clip and aired it repeatedly.

The military called the video a "stunt" and said the troops' commanders had been informed.

Hebron is home to about 1,60,000 Muslims, but some 500 Israeli settlers live in the centre of the city with a heavy Israeli security detail.

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