Elor Azaria, Israeli Soldier Who Killed Wounded Assailant, Gets 18 Months in Prisonbr Israel said that Sari Bashi, director for Humbr An Israeli legal and human rights advocacy group that opposes Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Yesh Din, has saidbr that before the case involving Sergeant Azaria, only one Israeli soldier had been charged and convicted of homicide after more than 260 investigations into Palestinian fatalities since the beginning of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000.br 21, 2017br JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier who shot an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in the head was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Tuesday, in a casebr that has divided Israelis and prompted calls for his pardon.br Elor Azaria was found guilty over the deadly shooting of a Palestinian assailant in thebr West Bank city of Hebron last year, in a case that has divided opinion in Israel.br Yohanan Plesner said that a lot of tension on the military leadershipbr and the soldiers who are put in situations where they are supposed to fight terror, pbr Mr. Sharif and another Palestinian had stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint.br Conservatives in Israel expressed outrage, with Naftali Bennett, the education minister, accusing the generals of beingbr "quick to pounce on the soldier," while others launched a bitter campaign against the defense minister, Moshe Yaalon.br Palestinians and Israeli rights advocates said the events showed a callousness to Palestinian life.