Elor Azaria, Israeli Soldier Who Killed Wounded Assailant, Gets 18 Months in Prison
Israel said that Sari Bashi, director for Hum
An Israeli legal and human rights advocacy group that opposes Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Yesh Din, has said
that before the case involving Sergeant Azaria, only one Israeli soldier had been charged and convicted of homicide after more than 260 investigations into Palestinian fatalities since the beginning of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000.
21, 2017
JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier who shot an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in the head was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Tuesday, in a case
that has divided Israelis and prompted calls for his pardon.
Elor Azaria was found guilty over the deadly shooting of a Palestinian assailant in the
West Bank city of Hebron last year, in a case that has divided opinion in Israel.
Yohanan Plesner said that a lot of tension on the military leadership
and the soldiers who are put in situations where they are supposed to fight terror, p
Mr. Sharif and another Palestinian had stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint.
Conservatives in Israel expressed outrage, with Naftali Bennett, the education minister, accusing the generals of being
"quick to pounce on the soldier," while others launched a bitter campaign against the defense minister, Moshe Yaalon.
Palestinians and Israeli rights advocates said the events showed a callousness to Palestinian life.
