An Israeli soldier implicated in the killing of two Gaza women carrying a white flag faces a 45-day jail term under a plea bargain approved by a military court on Sunday, local media said.
"Following a mediation process and upon examination of the evidence with the recommendation of the military court, both sides have reached a plea bargain in which the indictment will be adjusted, and he will be convicted of using a weapon illegally," a military statement said.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem, said that if the military had been unable to prove that "S" fired the fatal shots at the women, who were carrying a white flag when they were killed, it must reopen its investigation and find the guilty party.
"If the military prosecution accepted the claim brought by the soldier's lawyers, that there is no connection between the shooting he admitted to, and the killing of the Palestinian mother and daughter, this means that the investigation into this incident was never completed," the group said in a statement.
The incident was one of those raised in the UN Goldstone report on alleged war crimes by both Israel and Gaza's rulers, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, during the offensive aimed at halting rocket fire from Gaza.
More 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the conflict.
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