RAMALLAH – Palestinian officials said Wednesday that Israeli murderers of Palestinians who get pardoned by their government or get a lenient sentence in spite of the gravity of their crime should be tried by international criminal courts.
Issa Qaraqe, head of the Prisoners Commission in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said the Israeli soldier who killed Abdul Fattah al-Sharif in cold blood while incapacitated should be tried in an international tribunal.
The soldier, Elior Azaria, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and may even be pardoned and sent him in spite of his conviction of killing an incapacitated Palestinian in Hebron.
“Israeli criminals who committed a war crime against Palestinians and had received support, pardon and lenient sentence from the Israeli courts with full and official government backing, should be turned over to international tribunals to stand trial as war criminals,” said Qaraqe.
(WAFA)
