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Israeli Soldier Sentenced to Prison for Killing Wounded Palestinian Attacker


(Times of Israel) Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross - A Tel Aviv military court on Tuesday sentenced Israeli soldier Elor Azaria, 21, to 18 months in prison for killing a disarmed, wounded Palestinian assailant last year. Azaria was convicted of manslaughter in January in the shooting death of Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, who was lying on the ground after stabbing a soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron. Another stabber, Ramzi Aziz al-Qasrawi, was killed in the course of the attack. In reading out the sentence, Chief Judge Col. Maya Heller noted that Azaria violated the army's rules of engagement.
2017-02-22 00:00:00
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