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Israeli president overrules military to pardon soldier who killed incapacitated Palestinian attacker

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog pardoned a soldier who shot and killed an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in the occupied West Bank in 2016, despite opposition from the military’s chief of staff.
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