Summary
The Israel Defense Forces soldier who, in Matthew Abraham’s account, killed the incapacitated Abdul Fattah al-Sharif in Hebron in March 2015 (date as printed in the chapter) by shooting him in the head, was given a brief jail sentence after a divisive trial, and was released from prison in May 2018 (Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, PDF p.7 / printed p.83).
Details
- Abraham presents the case as revolving around whether Azaria shot al-Sharif because he perceived a threat or out of malice: Azaria claimed al-Sharif was reaching for a knife laying on the ground, but the knife is not present in the video at the time of the shooting, only afterward, suggesting in Abraham’s account that it was planted to solidify Azaria’s story (PDF p.7 / printed p.83).
- Azaria’s commanding officer reported that immediately after the shooting Azaria declared that the “terrorist was alive and needed to die” (PDF p.7 / printed p.83).
- The chapter’s note 2 and Works Cited cite three items on the trial: Booth and Eglash in the Washington Post (1 Nov. 2016), Horvitz (5 Jan. 2017) and Kubovich and Landau in Haaretz (8 May 2018) (PDF p.11-12 / printed p.87-88).
Related pages
Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, Abdul Fattah al-Sharif, Hebron, Israel Defense Forces