Posted on Feb 23, 2017
Israeli solider gets 18 months in prison for fatally shooting wounded Palestinian attacker |...
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Canadian and American soldiers have gone to prison over Mercy killings but in this case, and Israeli medic is given a demotion and an 18-month sentence for killing an unarmed terrorist after the fact. Shooting somebody in the head should not be considered manslaughter.
Israeli solider gets 18 months in prison for fatally shooting wounded Palestinian attacker |...
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That was sad news as far as I am concerned LTC (Join to see) that IDF soldier Elor Azaria was convicted of manslaughter in the March 24 incident from last year and sentenced to 18 months in military prison for shooting and killing a Palestinian attacker who had been wounded and motionless on the ground last year.
The incident was purportedly caught on film by a "Palestinian human rights activist."
The three-judge panel in a Tel Aviv military court also sentenced Sgt. Elor Azaria to a year’s probation and a demotion of rank to private. One of the judges held a dissenting opinion asking for a longer prison sentence reflecting the severity of the soldier’s actions.
Azaria, then a 19-year-old Israeli army medic, shot the Palestinian man nearly 15 minutes after the attacker tried to stab a soldier in Hebron, in March 2016. A Palestinian human rights activist captured the shooting and the tense moments leading up to it on video, and the footage drew international attention.
While the military prosecution asked to impose a sentence of three to five years, Azaria’s lawyers asked the court to impose only a punishment of “open detention,” and Azaria himself pleaded for the court “to be merciful in judging me.”
Dozens of his supporters and right-wing activists were gathering outside the courthouse, holding signs and chanting. There was a heavy police presence nearby.
The incident was purportedly caught on film by a "Palestinian human rights activist."
The three-judge panel in a Tel Aviv military court also sentenced Sgt. Elor Azaria to a year’s probation and a demotion of rank to private. One of the judges held a dissenting opinion asking for a longer prison sentence reflecting the severity of the soldier’s actions.
Azaria, then a 19-year-old Israeli army medic, shot the Palestinian man nearly 15 minutes after the attacker tried to stab a soldier in Hebron, in March 2016. A Palestinian human rights activist captured the shooting and the tense moments leading up to it on video, and the footage drew international attention.
While the military prosecution asked to impose a sentence of three to five years, Azaria’s lawyers asked the court to impose only a punishment of “open detention,” and Azaria himself pleaded for the court “to be merciful in judging me.”
Dozens of his supporters and right-wing activists were gathering outside the courthouse, holding signs and chanting. There was a heavy police presence nearby.
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If it had been the other way around. He would have had a street named after him.
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