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| By: israelinsider staff and partners |
| Published: February 28, 2007 |
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The shooting of a Palestinian by an IDF sniper in Gaza in 2003 went unpunished as the military court acquitted the soldier for lack of evidence on Tuesday after a three-year trial.
The maximum sentence facing the sniper, had he been convicted, is 20 years, not to mention a criminal record for an offense similar to manslaughter.
"The prosecution did not succeed in presenting admissible evidence proving what happened to the Palestinian...The investigation of the incident was careless and unprofessional," read the verdict.
The sniper, Sergeant A. served in the Shimshon battalion in 2003 where, according to the indictment, he was ordered to fire warning shots during a crowd dispersal operation; after a few shots a man was seen falling to the ground. The indictment claimed that in the investigation of the incident, the solider admitted to shooting against orders and supposedly said, "One more Arab is dead."
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