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Israeli soldier bags 18-months jail term for killing Palestinian
A military court in Tel Aviv has sentenced Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier to 18-months in prison for killing a Palestinian, Abed al-Fattah al-Sharif as he lay on the ground incapacitated after being gunned down.
Azaria was sentenced for manslaughter by judge Maya Heller who delivered the sentencing on Tuesday in a case that has stoked passions, debate and protest by critics.
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“This was at the lower end of what the prosecution had asked for when they requested that Azaria would serve between three and five years,” said Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith, reporting from Tel Aviv.
In her statement, Heller claimed that there were mitigating factors to the killing, which she said took place in “hostile territory”.
Analysts had expected Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter one month earlier, to be jailed for fewer than the maximum sentence of 20 years for killing Abed al-Fattah al-Sharif.
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