An Israeli lieutenant colonel and another reservist have been charged with torturing a Palestinian suspect's son during a clampdown in the West Bank in April, the army said in a statement.
The two soldiers are accused of beating and threatening to kill the youngster while they questioned him about the whereabouts of his father who appeared on an Israeli wanted list and was suspected of hiding weapons, the Israeli army said.
The pair are also accused of stripping the youth and threatening to burn his private parts with a naked flame during the interrogation in the village of Duha near the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
As well as the alleged physical and sexual abuse, the two reservists are also charged with "behaviour not in conformity" with army rules.
The Israeli army often detains the relatives of suspected militants in a bid to extract information in a practice regularly criticised by human rights groups.
Meanwhile the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations said Israel's air strike in Gaza City on Monday was a war crime that falls under the scope of the International Criminal Court.
"This action definitely falls within the jurisdiction of the court and, as such, measures to bring the perpetrators to justice should be taken," Mr Nasser al-Kidwa said in his letter to the president of the UN Security Council.
The Israeli bombing raid killed the military chief of the Palestinian radical Islamic group Hamas, his bodyguard and 13 civilians.
AFP