A young Israeli soldier who shot dead an incapacitated Palestinian assailant has been jailed for 18 months.
A military court last month convicted Sergeant Elor Azaria
of manslaughter, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years
imprisonment. Prosecutors had called for the army medic to spend three
to five years behind bars.
The incident took place in Hebron in the occupied West Bank in March 2016.
The Palestinian man, Abd Elfatah Ashareef, 21, was involved
in stabbing another soldier. Azaria, then 19, shot him in the head as
he lay on the ground, ten minutes after being wounded.
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Source: euronews.
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