{"id":24301,"date":"2016-04-01T02:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T02:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/no-murder-charge-for-israeli-soldier-in-shooting\/"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:46:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T02:46:14","slug":"no-murder-charge-for-israeli-soldier-in-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/no-murder-charge-for-israeli-soldier-in-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"No murder charge for Israeli soldier in shooting death"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Prosecutor downgrades charge against soldier who shot dead wounded Palestinian to manslaughter from murder.}<\/p>\n

An Israeli soldier caught on video fatally shooting a wounded Palestinian as he lay on the ground will now face a charge of manslaughter rather than murder.<\/p>\n

The prosecutors’ decision on Thursday comes a day after the UN said the killing of Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, 21, exhibited all the signs of an extrajudicial execution.<\/p>\n

Footage of the incident showed the Israeli soldier step forward and shoot the Palestinian in the head at close range as he lay motionless on the ground.<\/p>\n

“[We are] hearing that the prosecutor has now downgraded the potential charge from murder – which is an extremely rare charge to be levelled against any member of the Israeli army – to manslaughter,” Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker, reporting from West Jerusalem, said.<\/p>\n

Under Israeli law, manslaughter signifies an intentional but not premeditated killing.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors sought to extend the remand in military prison of the soldier, who was arrested after the March 24 shooting.<\/p>\n

The court ruled that he should instead be confined to barracks without being locked up but after the prosecution objected, the judge ordered another hearing for Friday.<\/p>\n

“Due to this, the soldier will remain in detention until the conclusion of tomorrow’s deliberations,” an army spokeswoman told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

Fattah and another man, who was earlier shot and killed, were accused of stabbing an Israeli soldier in Hebron. <\/p>\n

Military prosecutors said on Thursday the Israeli soldier opened fire “with intent and with no operational need” in Fattah’s killing, Israeli radio reported.<\/p>\n

Palestinian activists in Hebron have demanded that Israel holds its army accountable for Fattah’s killing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, hundreds of nationalist Israelis, some wrapped in Israeli flags, have demonstrated in support of the soldier outside the military court near the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi.<\/p>\n

They included opposition politician Avigdor Lieberman, who told the crowd on Tuesday: “I prefer a soldier who made a mistake but is still alive, over a dead soldier who hesitated.”<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Christof Heyns, the UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said: “Whatever legal regime one applies to the case, shooting someone who is no longer a threat is murder.” <\/p>\n

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