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The lawyer of Israeli soldier Elor Azaria, who killed a wounded Palestinian in Hebron, told the judge that 17 similar cases were closed without legal proceedings being brought against the perpetrators, Haaretz reported yesterday.
The lawyer was reported speaking as he was defending the Israeli soldier, who was indicted for manslaughter and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
According to the lawyer, the 17 cases, which were closed without legal procedures, were tens of times more dangerous than the case of Azaria.
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The lawyer said that the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported some of these cases, including one in which a volunteer policeman opened fire at a wounded attacker in Tel Aviv in March 2016 and the investigation unit in the police closed the case.
Azaria opened fire on and killed Abdel-Fattah Al-Sharif while he was lying on the ground bleeding and motionless. The incident was recorded by another Palestinian and the video went viral on social media.
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