The IDF’s parole board announces that Elor Azaria, the former sergeant who was imprisoned for killing a disarmed and wounded Palestinian attacker, will be given early release after he completes two-thirds of his 14-month sentence.
In a brief statement, the parole board says he is expected to go free on May 10.
During a parole hearing last week, military prosecutors said they would not oppose early release for Azaria in May, when he will have served 10 months of his manslaughter sentence for killing the incapacitated Palestinian attacker, Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, in Hebron.
Azaria has never expressed regret for his actions, something the military prosecutors have noted in their arguments. Then-Sgt. Azaria shot and killed Sharif on March 24, 2016, some 11 minutes after Sharif had been shot and disarmed when he and another Palestinian man attacked two IDF soldiers.
— with Judah Ari Gross
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