Hebron shooter Azaria asks president for pardon

19 October 2017, 7:32 pm

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Former IDF sergeant Elor Azaria, sentenced to prison for the killing of an incapacitated Palestinian assailant last year in Hebron, appeals to President Reuven Rivlin for a pardon.

In September, Azaria saw his 18-month sentence shortened by four months by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot.

In his appeal to the president, Azaria insists he had an unfair trial. “Unfortauntely I don’t feel that I was given a fair trial. Nothing will change that feeling,” Azaria says in the pardon request.

He insists that “if I had known for certain, in those tense seconds in the field, that the terrorist was not booby-trapped, I would not have fired.”