IOF trooper jailed for killing, but only because he killed another IOF trooper

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Note the use "suspected accidental discharge" in the caption to this picture of the IOF trooper that was killed.  Probably, the killer thought he was shooting a Palestinian, or he is a racist, and shot the IOF trooper because he was Black. 

Needless to say, if he had killed a Palestinian, or a Black Israhelli, he wouldn't get put in jail for three years. 

Cpl. Baruch Kabarta, who was killed by a suspected accidental discharge at a military base near Jerusalem on January 3, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier who accidentally killed comrade jailed for 3 years in plea deal   
Pvt. Binyamin Fentaye, who shot Cpl. Baruch Kabarta dead at base near Jerusalem in January, also ordered to pay small compensation fee to family
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A military court on Wednesday accepted a plea deal for an Israeli soldier who had been convicted of reckless homicide for the accidental killing of a comrade on an army base near Jerusalem earlier this year, and sentenced him to three years in prison.

According to an indictment filed earlier this year, the Military Police soldier, Pvt. Binyamin Fentaye, entered a room on the Anatot Base on the night of January 2, picked up a gun that wasn't his, and "carried out various actions" that resulted in a bullet unintentionally discharging from the rifle, killing Cpl. Baruch Kabarta.

The soldier, who was detained shortly after the deadly incident, was also convicted earlier this month of obstruction of justice after he allegedly tried to dissuade another soldier who was in the room at the time from talking about the shooting.

Following a mediation process between prosecutors and the soldier's defense team earlier this month, Fentaye confessed to the charge of reckless homicide, and the sides requested that he be sentenced to three years in prison.

The court on Wednesday accepted the plea deal and sentenced the soldier to three years.

Additionally, the soldier was handed a suspended sentence and ordered to pay NIS 13,270 ($3,500) in compensation to Kabarta's family, the latter of which had already been carried out amid the mediation process. The sum is the maximum compensation according to the law of military jurisdiction.

Prosecutors had told the military court that the agreed-upon punishment was "more severe" than similar cases of deaths as a result of accidental misfires, and that it "reflects the severity in which it views the case, and is intended to prevent future disasters of this kind."

Kabarta, 19, from the central city of Petah Tikvah, served in the Military Police's Erez Battalion, in the same company as Sgt. Noa Lazar, who was shot dead in an attack at a checkpoint in East Jerusalem in October 2022.

He was buried at a military cemetery in his hometown.

The head of the IDF's Personnel Directorate, Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, ordered the establishment of a panel of experts to investigate the circumstances of the incident. Asor appointed Col. Yaron Simsolo, the commander of the 646th Paratroopers Brigade, to lead the probe.

The panel has not yet published its findings.