Israel has handed down a 10-day military prison sentence to an army commander in the occupied West Bank following an inquiry into his shooting of a Palestinian motorist.
Rights groups and other critics have accused Israeli soldiers and police officers of being too quick to pull the trigger, particularly in response to a recent surge in attacks by Palestinians that have killed 31 people so far this year.
They have noted that Israeli military investigations into accusations of crimes committed against Palestinians rarely, which Israel captured along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war. According to Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, of the 248 investigations into cases of harm inflicted on Palestinians opened by the Israeli military in the West Bank between 2017 and 2021, only 11 indictments were issued. There were over 1,200 complaints of wrongdoing by Israeli forces during that period, meaning that officers prosecuted 0.87% of the time, Yesh Din reported.
Penalties for Israeli soldiers raise a host of thorny political issues in the country, which has compulsory military service for most Jewish men. Right-wing lawmakers responded angrily to the sentencing of the commander on Tuesday."Wake me up and tell me it’s a bad dream," Tally Gotliv, a lawmaker with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, adding that the commander was"punished for being a hero.
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