The Central District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment with the Lod District Court on Thursday against Israeli-Arab Abed al-Karim Adel Asi for the murder of Rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal outside the settlement of Ariel in February.



Asi was captured by security forces in Nablus along with several other suspects in mid-March.

“It was the culmination of extensive efforts since the terrorist attack, during which a number of accomplices, who are suspected of either helping [Asi] or knowing his whereabouts, were interrogated,” the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said in a statement.Asi, a 19-year-old Israeli resident of Jaffa, stabbed 29-year-old Ben-Gal while he was waiting at a bus stop near the entrance to the settlement of Ariel early last month. Ben-Gal was heading to his nephew’s brit mila.He had acquired two 27-centimeter knives for the attack, according to the indictment.After he was stabbed, Ben-Gal ran to a nearby stopped bus, knocking on the door before collapsing. An off-duty IDF officer who witnessed the attack hit Asi with his car. Despite being hit, Asi was able to escape from the scene with the help of an unidentified accomplice waiting in a vehicle nearby.Asi had scouted the scene of the attack the previous day, taunting troops who were providing security at a nearby bus station. Due to his suspicious behavior, troops distanced him from civilians as they questioned him. After they ascertained that he was Israeli and released him, Asi swore at them saying: “I’ll remember your faces, you whores!”Ben-Gal was buried in February in Har Bracha, the settlement where he lived with his wife and four children.Also, on Thursday, the Haifa District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against Malek Yusef Nahar Asadi in the Haifa District Court for nationalistically motivated attempted murder in Acre on March 4.Police and Shin Bet interrogated Asadi, 26, a resident of Shfaram, who was arrested after a car-ramming attempt that injured four Israelis, including two IDF soldiers and a border policeman.Asadi has tried to assert that he was just angry at having received a parking ticket, but he was charged with the aggravating factor of his crime being ideologically motivated.The prosecution requested keeping both defendants in police custody until the end of their respective trials.Anna Ahronheim contributed to this report.

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JERUSALEM - An Israeli former paramilitary policeman was jailed for nine months on Wednesday for killing a teenage Palestinian protester in 2014, prompting protests from the youngster's family who demanded a tougher sentence.

In a plea bargain, defendant Ben Deri had earlier confessed to the negligent manslaughter and aggravated injury of 17-year-old Nadim Nuwara - less serious than the full manslaughter charge he originally faced.

"This is not how justice is done," Nuwara's father Issam told Reuters after the sentencing.

"I never expected the Israeli court to do justice for my martyred son, but I had to do all I can to present a solid case and to expose the Israeli judicial system before the world and I did."

Prosecutors had originally filed full manslaughter charges against Deri, accusing him of deliberately switching his rubber bullets for the live round that killed Nuwara at Beitunia village in the occupied West Bank.

The amended indictment agreed to by Deri and approved by Jerusalem District Court, described the switch as accidental.

Negligent manslaughter carries a maximum three-year jail term in Israel. Manslaughter, by contrast, carries a maximum 20-year sentence as that charge can apply to deliberate killings where there is no clear evidence of premeditation.

The court handed Deri a nine-month jail term, an additional six-month suspended sentence, and ordered Deri to pay 50,000 shekels (R 174134.10) in damages to Nuwara's family.

Deri was convicted of aggravating injury after the court determined that he had aimed what he thought was a rubber bullet at Nuwara's chest at Beitunia on May 15, 2014.

A second teenage protester was killed in the Beitunia incident but Israel did not pursue charges in that case, citing lack of evidence as an autopsy was not carried out.

The court statement on Wednesday said the shooting took place after the stone-throwing by the protesters had ceased. "Contrary to regulations, and despite the fact that the deceased posed no threat to the (Israeli) unit, the defendant aimed his weapon at the torso of the deceased and fired at the deceased with the intent of injuring him."

The deaths stoked Palestinian fury at Israel in the weeks after U.S.-sponsored peace talks collapsed in April.

An Israeli soldier, Elor Azaria, is due to be released from prison next month after serving two-thirds of a 14-month sentence for manslaughter over his killing of a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant in the West Bank in 2016.

Azaria was originally sentenced to 18 months in jail, a term the Palestinian government condemned as a "green light" to kill with impunity. Israel's armed forces chief cut that sentence by four months and it was later shortened by a third for good behaviour. </s> April 25 (UPI) -- An Israeli border police officer was sentenced to nine months in prison Wednesday for shooting a Palestinian teenager to death during a protest.

Judge Daniel Teperberg found officer Ben Deri guilty of causing death by negligence by firing live ammunition instead of rubber bullets at 17-year-old Nadeem Nawara when ordered to disperse a crowd of protestors during a Nakba Day demonstration on May 15, 2014, in the West Bank village of Beitunia.

In addition to serving nine months in prison he was ordered to pay a $14,000 fine to Nawara's family for damages.

"Against protocol and despite the deceased not representing a threat to the unit, the defendant aimed his weapon at the center mass of the deceased's body and fired at him with the intent to harm," the court ruled.

According to the court's ruling, Deri's decision to fire the live rounds into the crowd required two acts of negligence.

"The defendant did not check that his magazine contained only blanks and did not load a rubber bullet into the Roma as required. These two oversights, which amount to gross negligence, caused the death of the deceased," the court said.

Deri was initially charged with manslaughter, but the charged was reduced as part of a plea deal in which he admitted to accidentally using the live rounds.

Prosecutors requested Deri be sentenced to 20 to 27 months in prison, but Tepperberg said the nine-month sentence was a balance of his record as a border police men and the order he received to quell a riot. The court also decided to count two months Deri has already spent in jail as served time.

Deri's lawyer, Zion Amir, said he was pleased the sentenced was lessened, but added he would appeal the sentencing in hopes of reducing it further. </s> Nine-month sentence described as ‘ridiculous’ by father of 17-year-old who posed no threat

An Israeli border police officer who fatally shot a Palestinian teenager at a demonstration while the boy was posing no threat to soldiers has been sentenced to nine months in prison after a protracted court process.

The father of 17-year-old Nadeem Nawara, whose case was covered by the Guardian and other international media four years ago, described the sentence for causing death by negligence as “ridiculous” and claimed that the officer, Ben Deri, had murdered his son.

Deri’s plea bargain was held up by the teenager’s family and others in comparison to the long prison sentences typically handed down by the courts to Palestinians found guilty of killing Israelis.

Nadeem was one of three Palestinian teenagers shot with live ammunition over a period of over an hour during a stone-throwing demonstration near Ofer prison on 15 May 2014, the day each year when Palestinians mark the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, the war around the time of the creation of Israel in 1948.

Mohammad Salameh, 16, was fatally shot an hour after Nawara, and Mohamed al-Azi, who was 15 at the time, survived a gunshot wound to the chest.

At the time an Israeli military spokesman tried to deflect outrage over the shootings, claiming footage had been edited to present an unfair picture of events.

The sentence on Wednesday comes as Israeli security forces’ use of live fire is again in the spotlight after the fatal shooting of several dozen Palestinians at the Gaza border fence in recent weeks

Deri was tried only for firing the fatal shots that killed Nadeem, as only the teenager’s family allowed for the body to be exhumed and an autopsy to be carried out. The examination found Nadeem had been killed by an Israeli M16 roundto the chest.

The prosecution demonstrated in court that police and soldiers at the scene had been ordered only to use rubber-coated steel pellets, and that Deri had replaced the magazine on his M16 with one containing live rounds.

At 1.45pm, four minutes after Nadeem threw a stone at Israeli forces, Deri shot him in the chest. Video footage seen by the Guardian at the time and taken from a nearby security camera showed that Nadeem was 80-200 metres from the soldiers when he was shot.

The court agreed to a plea bargain which dropped a charge of manslaughter, describing Deri’s actions as having involving a “high degree of negligence” when he loaded his weapon with live bullets. Deri was ordered to pay the victim’s family $14,000 (£10,000).

“This is not how justice is done,” said Nadeem’s father, Siam Nawara, after the sentencing. “I never expected the Israeli court to do justice for my martyred son, but I had to do all I can to present a solid case and to expose the Israeli judicial system before the world and I did.”

He added: “Ben Deri who murders – and I am convinced that he intentionally committed murder – gets nine months and in the height of chutzpah I hear that they are considering appealing the severity of the sentence.

“We are dealing with an entire system that discriminates on the basis of race and arrives at decisions that are far from just.”

The case leaves multiple questions unanswered, including whether it was Deri or or others who fired the other live rounds. The court accepted that Deri had made two weapons handling errors that led him to fire the round that killed Nadeem.

The method used by Israeli border police to fire large rubber bullets from an M16 rifle requires the use of a long barrel extension preventing live rounds being fired through it. The rubber bullet is placed in the extension and blank cartridges are loaded into the gun itself, with the force of the explosion from the blanks propelling the projectile.

“The defendant did not check that his magazine contained only blanks and did not load a rubber bullet into the [barrel extension] as required. These two oversights, which amount to gross negligence, caused the death of the deceased,” the court judgment said. </s> Synagogue members console one another outside of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Poway, Calif. Several people were injured in a shooting at the synagogue. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

A 19-year-old surrendered to police after bursting into Chabad of Poway, north of San Diego

The rabbi who led a service on the last day of Passover suffered a gunshot wound to his hands and two others endured shrapnel wounds as political, civic and religious leaders across the country struggled to make sense of another fatal attack on a house of worship six months after a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue.

John T. Earnest, 19, surrendered to police after bursting into Chabad of Poway, north of San Diego on Saturday and opening fire with about 100 people inside, killing Lori Kaye, 60, and injuring Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, Noya Dahan, 8, and Almog Peretz, 34, authorities said.

Earnest, who had no previous contact with law enforcement, may be charged with a hate crime in addition to homicide, San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said. Earnest is also being investigated in connection with an arson attack on a mosque in nearby Escondido, California, on March 24.

Goldstein told “Today” in a phone interview he was in the middle of his sermon when he heard loud noises. He turned around and saw he was “face-to-face with this murderer, this terrorist.” He said he put his hands up to protect himself and lost one of his fingers in the shooting.

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There were indications an AR-type assault weapon might have malfunctioned after the gunman fired numerous rounds inside, Gore said. An off-duty Border Patrol agent working as a security guard fired at the shooter as he fled, missing him but striking his getaway vehicle, Gore said.

Shortly after fleeing, Earnest called 911 to report the shooting, San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said. When an officer reached him on a roadway, “the suspect pulled over, jumped out of his car with his hands up and was immediately taken into custody,” Nisleit said.

Goldstein described Kaye as a “pioneering, founding member” of the congregation and says he is “heartbroken” by her death.

A friend of Kaye’s, Audrey Jacobs, said on Facebook that she was “taking bullets” for the rabbi to save his life, and the rabbi continued to give his sermon after being shot.

Almog Peretz, who had moved to California a few months ago from the rocket-battered town of Sderot in southern Israel near the Gaza border, said a man entered the synagogue and started shooting in all directions.

“I was with my back to the shooter. I heard a shot or two and then turned around to face him and that’s when he fired at me. I ran quickly, picking up a small girl in my hands,” he recalled in conversation with the Israeli YNet news site. “He hit me once in the leg and I kept running. I didn’t feel it much since there we so many bullets flying by. I heard them and I saw them right next to me.”

Gore said authorities were reviewing copies of Earnest’s social media posts, including what he described as a “manifesto.”

A person identifying themselves as John Earnest posted an anti-Jewish screed online about an hour before the attack. The poster described himself as a nursing school student and praised the suspects accused of carrying out deadly attacks on mosques in New Zealand last month and at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue Oct. 27.

“It was a hate crime, no doubt about it,” national security adviser John Bolton said on “Fox News Sunday.” He said investigators have not seen any connection between the suspect and other extremist groups.

California State University, San Marcos, confirmed Earnest was a student on the dean’s list and said the school was “dismayed and disheartened” that he was suspected in “this despicable act.”

There was no known threat after Earnest was arrested, but authorities boosted patrols at places of worship as a precaution, police said.

Minoo Anvari, a member of the synagogue, said her husband was inside during the shooting. She said he called to tell her the shooter was shouting and cursing.

She called the shooting “unbelievable” in a peaceful and tight-knit community. “We are strong; you can’t break us,” Anvari said.

Rabbi Yonah Fradkin, executive director of Chabad of San Diego County, said that “in the face of senseless hate we commit to live proudly as Jews in this glorious country. We strongly believe that love is exponentially more powerful than hate. We are deeply shaken by the loss of a true woman of valour, Lori Kaye, who lost her life solely for living as a Jew.”

Donny Phonea, who lives across the street from the synagogue, turned off his power drill and heard someone shout, “Police!” Then he heard three or four shots.

The 38-year-old bank auditor looked over his backyard fence facing the synagogue and saw people hiding behind an electrical box in the parking lot of a neighbouring church. At that point, he knew something was “very, very wrong,” went inside and closed his doors and garage.

“I’m a little taken aback,” said Phonea, who moved to Poway two weeks ago. “I moved here because safety was a factor. Poway is very safe.”

President Donald Trump offered his sympathies Saturday, saying the shooting “looked like a hate crime.”

“Our entire nation mourns the loss of life, prays for the wounded and stands in solidary with the Jewish community,” Trump said later at a rally in Wisconsin. “We forcefully condemn the evils of anti-Semitism and hate, which must be defeated.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom said he joins the community in grief.

“No one should have to fear going to their place of worship, and no one should be targeted for practicing the tenets of their faith,” he said.

Elliot Spagat And Daisy Nguyen, The Associated Press

Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter </s> POWAY, Calif. -- Authorities have identified 19-year-old John Earnest as the man who opened fire at a San Diego-area synagogue Saturday morning, killing one worshipper and injuring three others.Earnest entered the synagogue with an "AR-type assault weapon" and began shooting, according to San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore. Law enforcement sources told ABC News the shooting happened quickly, and the shooter appears to have fired more than 10 rounds before leaving the synagogue.One victim, 60-year-old Lori Gilbert Kaye, was taken to a hospital but later died . A friend of Kaye's, Audrey Jacobs, said on Facebook that she was "taking bullets" for Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein to save his life, and the rabbi continued to give his sermon after being shot. Goldstein was also shot, while 8-year-old Noya Dahan and 34-year-old Almog Peretz suffered shrapnel wounds. Their injuries are not considered to be life-threatening.Gore said there were indications that Earnest's weapon malfunctioned during the shooting. ABC News has learned that Earnest was wearing a helmet-mounted camera and planned to live-stream the attack online, but the camera apparently also malfunctioned.An off-duty Border Patrol officer attempted to stop the suspected Earnest inside the synagogue, but Earnest escaped and later called the California Highway Patrol to arrange his own surrender following the shooting, according to authorities. San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said the officer who took Earnest into custody clearly saw a firearm in the front seat of Earnest's car.The suspect used a .223 AR rifle that was purchased weeks before the attack, a law enforcement source told ABC News.Earnest, who had no previous contact with law enforcement, may be charged with a hate crime in addition to homicide, Gore said. Investigators said Saturday they were working to determine whether or not Earnest was involved in a recent fire at a mosque in nearby Escondido, California Investigators are also looking into social media posts and an online open letter attributed to Earnest.A person identifying themselves as John Earnest posted an anti-Jewish screed online about an hour before the attack. The poster described himself as a nursing school student and praised the suspects accused of carrying out deadly attacks on mosques in New Zealand last month and at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue Oct. 27. </s> When gunfire erupted inside a Southern California synagogue during a service on the last day of Passover, Shimon Abitbul recalls he immediately placed his 2-year-old grandson on the floor and waited for a break in the shooting to grab the boy and sprint away.

Then Abitbul ran back to the shooting scene to try to help a woman he described as having a hole in her chest and who later died, he said, tears streaming down his face as he spoke Sunday outside the Chabad of Poway synagogue. The congregation's rabbi, who was shot in the hand, had wrapped a prayer shawl around his bloodied fingers, Abitbul said.

The attack Saturday came exactly six months after a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue.

John T. Earnest, 19, surrendered to police after bursting into the synagogue north of San Diego and opening fire as about 100 people were worshipping inside. Congregant Lori Kaye, 60, was killed in the attack, which injured Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, 8-year-old Noya Dahan and Almog Peretz, 34, authorities said.

Earnest, who had no previous contact with law enforcement, may be charged with a hate crime in addition to homicide, San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said. Police searched Earnest's house and said he was also being investigated in connection with an arson attack on a mosque in nearby Escondido, California, on March 24.

Goldstein told NBC's "Sunday Today" he was in the middle of his sermon when he heard loud noises. He turned around and saw he was "face-to-face with this murderer, this terrorist," he said. He raised his hands to protect himself and lost one of his fingers in the shooting.

There were indications an AR-type assault weapon might have malfunctioned after the gunman fired numerous rounds inside, Gore said. An off-duty Border Patrol agent working as a security guard fired at the shooter as he fled, missing him but striking his getaway vehicle, the sheriff said.

Shortly after fleeing, Earnest called 911 to report the shooting, San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said. When an officer reached him on a roadway, "the suspect pulled over, jumped out of his car with his hands up and was immediately taken into custody," he said.

Goldstein described Kaye as a "pioneering, founding member" of the congregation and said he was "heartbroken" by her death.

A friend of Kaye's, Audrey Jacobs, said on Facebook that she was told by a friend who was at the synagogue during the attack that Kaye was "taking bullets" for the rabbi to save his life, and that the rabbi continued to give his sermon after being shot.

Another friend, Roneet Lev, told the Los Angeles Times that Kaye's physician husband was called to tend to a wounded worshipper and fainted when he realized it was his wife.

Lev said Kaye had gone to the synagogue to say Kaddish, a Jewish prayer for the dead, for her mother, who had recently died.

"The irony is, people will be saying it for her now," Lev said.

Abitbul, who was visiting from Israel and staying with his daughter and her family in Southern California, said he was still coming to grips with the carnage.

"All of us are human beings," he said. "It doesn't matter if you are Jews or Christians or Muslims."

Almog Peretz, who was wounded in the leg, had moved to California just a few months ago from the Israeli town of Sderot near the Gaza border, a frequent target of rocket attacks by the Hamas militant group. He said a man entered the synagogue and started shooting in all directions.

"I was with my back to the shooter. I heard a shot or two and then turned around to face him and that's when he fired at me. I ran quickly, picking up a small girl in my hands," he told the Israeli YNet news site. "He hit me once in the leg and I kept running. I didn't feel it much since there were so many bullets flying by. I heard them and I saw them right next to me."

Gore said authorities were reviewing Earnest's social media posts, including what he described as a "manifesto."

A person identifying himself as John Earnest posted an anti-Jewish screed online about an hour before the attack. The poster described himself as a nursing school student and praised the suspects accused of carrying out deadly attacks on mosques in New Zealand last month that killed 50 and at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, in which 11 people were killed.

"It was a hate crime, no doubt about it," national security adviser John Bolton said on "Fox News Sunday." He said investigators have not seen any connection between the suspect and other extremist groups.

California State University, San Marcos, confirmed that Earnest was a student who was on the dean's list and said the school was "dismayed and disheartened" that he was suspected in "this despicable act."

Deb Lira, 71, of nearby Rancho Bernardo, said she was angry and sickened by the attack in what has long been a peaceful community. "I'm here because I'm Jewish and this is my message," she said, pointing to a sign that read "never again" and "never forget."

"I will not be silent," she said.

There was no known threat after Earnest was arrested, but authorities boosted patrols at places of worship Saturday and again on Sunday as a precaution, police said.

President Donald Trump offered his sympathies Saturday, saying the shooting "looked like a hate crime."

"Our entire nation mourns the loss of life, prays for the wounded and stands in solidary with the Jewish community," Trump said later at a rally in Wisconsin. "We forcefully condemn the evils of anti-Semitism and hate, which must be defeated."

Gov. Gavin Newsom said he joins the community in grief.

"No one should have to fear going to their place of worship, and no one should be targeted for practicing the tenets of their faith," he said.

Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in Poway and Daisy Nguyen in San Francisco contributed to this report.

This story has been corrected to show the victim's name is Lori Kaye, not Kayne. </s> The parents of late Palestinian teenager Nadeem Nuwarah, who was killed by an Israeli occupation forces in 2014 in Beitunia in the occupied West Bank, are seen at the district court in Jerusalem on Wednesday (AFP photo)

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — An Israeli court on Wednesday sentenced an Israeli occupation soldier to nine months in jail over the fatal shooting of a Palestinian teenager in 2014, an incident documented by video footage.

The sentence was handed down after Ben Deri, 24, was found guilty of negligent homicide and also ordered to pay 50,000 shekels ($14,000) to the family of Nadeem Nuwarah, who was 17.

Nuwarah was killed on May 15, 2014, during a day of protests in Beitunia, south of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, with Palestinian demonstrators mourning the anniversary of what the Arabs term the Nakba, or "catastrophe”, which marked mass expulsions and violence amid the 1948 creation of Israel.

Footage recorded by US broadcaster CNN captured a group of five or six Israeli occupation forces in the area, one of whom could be seen firing at the time when the youth was hit.

Another teenager was killed in the same location under similar circumstances a little over an hour later, with another seriously injured.

Deri was charged only over the first killing as the family of the second teen said they had no confidence in the Israeli court system, a statement from Defence for Children International (DCI) said.

The CNN footage and other video appeared to dispute initial Israeli denials that their occupation forces used live fire.

Judge Daniel Teperberg of the Jerusalem district court said the circumstances of the defendant's felony were "severe" and the degree of his negligence was "high".

Deri claimed during his trial he had “mistakenly” introduced live ammunition into his M-16 instead of rubber bullets.

Deri did not ensure his rifle was loaded with blank bullets and rubber-coated shells, Teperberg said, noting the firing "was carried out without justification".

Siam Nuwarah, Nadeem’s father, told AFP the family was not part of the plea deal confirmed by the court, in which he had no faith.

“We went to the Israeli court because there’s no other way, but this is a lack of justice that will breed violence,” he said.

Ayed Abu Qtaish from DCI said the sentence was too lenient. “It’s almost what a Palestinian child gets for throwing stones,” he told AFP by phone.

Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said the sentence reflected “Israel’s deliberate dehumanisation of its Palestinian victims”.

This, she said, was a result of the occupation of the West Bank that “holds an entire nation under captivity and employs an unremitting and lethal shoot-to-kill policy against Palestinians”.

Deri’s action “constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity under international law”, Ashrawi said, warning that if the international community “remains silent, the injustice and oppression of the Palestinian people will continue unabated”.

Beitunia was that day the scene of remote skirmishes between young protesters and Israeli occupation forces.

CNN images from the day show, according to the channel, Nuwarah throwing a stone at the Israeli forces.

CCTV showed the two teens falling down in the same place one hour and 15 minutes apart.

The court accepted a guilty plea deal on that basis that Deri had cooperated with the investigation and had “no previous record of wrongdoing”.

The sentencing comes as Palestinians and Israelis prepare for another commemoration of the “Nakba” on May 15. </s> Relatives of an unarmed Palestinian teen killed by an Israeli officer four years ago have slammed a nine-month sentence handed by an Israeli court to the member of the security forces, saying it exposes how "unjust" Israel's judicial system is.

Israeli border police officer Ben Deri was filmed shooting dead Nadim Nuwarra in May 2014 during a protest at the Beitunia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, even though the 17-year-old posed no danger.

A second teenage protester, Mohammad Abu Thaher, 16, was also hit with live rounds and killed. Israel did not make an arrest in that case, citing lack of evidence as an autopsy was not carried out.

In a plea bargain, the Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday handed Deri a nine-month jail term, an additional six-month suspended sentence and ordered him to pay 50,000 shekels ($14,000) in damages to Nuwarra's family.

Under last year's plea deal, Deri had his original charge of manslaughter reduced to negligent use of a firearm. Prosecutors accepted Deri's claim that he had mistakenly loaded a live round into his rifle when he intended to shoot a rubber bullet.

Nuwara's family at the time called the plea agreement a "trick" and "shame on the Israeli justice system".

Siam Nuwarra, Nadim's father, has over the years fought a long legal battle on behalf of his son - from the moment, he says, he found a live bullet in the backpack Nadim was wearing when he was shot dead.

"I have proven that Israel has no justice or fairness when it comes to Palestinians," he told Al Jazeera.

"I proved this with evidence, because the case of Nadim is one of the strongest cases in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - by evidence, it proves Nadim was intentionally killed."

Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi also condemned the length of the sentence as "ludicrous", comparing it to that of Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teenager sentenced to eight months on assault and incitement charges after slapping an Israeli soldier.

"This unwarranted and unjust decision represents a double standard in Israel's outrageous sentences passed against Palestinians by Israeli military courts while Israeli occupation forces and illegal and extremist settlers are given free license to act with complete impunity," Ashrawi said in a statement.

Ammar Dweik, of the Independent Commission for Human Rights, agreed.

"Ahed Tamimi is a child who slapped a soldier and received almost the same sentence as a soldier who put an end to the life of a Palestinian child," he said.

"So you can compare the double standards that the Israeli justice system is following."

The Israeli police declined to comment on Deri's sentencing.
The Central District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment with the Israeli Lod District Court against Abed al-Karim Adel Asi for the murder of a rabbi on February 5 and the Haifa District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against Malek Yusef Nahar Asadi for the March 4 attempted murder by ramming a car which injured four people.