A military judge on Sunday questioned why IDF soldier Elor Azaria, who was found guilty of manslaughter after shooting dead a neutralized terrorist, was appealing his conviction and 18-month sentence, calling on both Azaria and the military prosecution to withdraw their appeals.
Azaria’s lawyer, Yoram Sheftel, was quick to accept the proposal and offered a two-week mediation process instead, but prosecutor Lt. Col. (res.) Nadav Weisman refused and insisted the court rules on the case.
Despite this, the judges called on the two sides to consider the request and asked the prosecution to raise the issue with the Military Advocate General. The court gave the two sides a week to reach a decision.
The military court at the Kirya IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv held what is supposed to be the final hearing in Azaria’s appeal, during which the judges posed hard questions to Azaria’s lawyer.
“None of the soldiers, officers or armed civilians at the scene, despite having felt danger, drew their weapon and shot the terrorist,” Judge Zvi Segal told Sheftel. Read more at YNet.
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This soldier should be set free. This is just showing the terrorists that although there intention is to kill. Off soldiers can’t shoot.
How sad stupid non religious israel
na you can see in the video that he really with kavona wanted to kill the terrorist. what time is yom tov in???