These data should make a prime minister interested in supporting the Army lose sleep, Benyair, who is also a former acting judge of the Supreme Court, stated on Twitter about recent statements by the head of Government Yair Lapid.

Those figures and the murder of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh cannot pass “without analyzing the situation in which the soldiers’ hand is surprisingly light to pull the trigger,” he stressed.

Benyair called on Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz to control the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “instead of issuing blind statements of support, in which only innocent people die.”

Two days ago, the Israeli prime minister endorsed the IDF’s decision not to prosecute the soldier who shot and killed the journalist on May 11.

On May 26, Palestinian Attorney General Akram Al-Khatib revealed the results of an investigation about that crime, which pointed to the neighboring country’s soldiers.

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