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While Israeli National Security Minister Itamar-Ben Gvir called for the death penalty of a Palestinian detainee, Israeli president Isaac Herzog pardoned an Israeli soldier after he was convicted of killing a wounded Palestinian in 2016.
The Israeli soldier was one of the first to be convicted of killing a Palestinian in the last decade.