Photo Gallery Flashpoint Hebron
Elor Azaria in court with his parents in July. The 20-year-old is being tried for shooting a wounded Palestinian in the head after he stabbed an Israeli soldier. The Israeli military says Azaria is a "soldier who has transgressed," but many in Israeli society see him as a hero.
The man Azaria killed was 21-year-old Abdel fattah al-Sharif. His picture is seen here in the family home between his mother Raja Shaheen and grandfather, after whom Sharif was named. They insist that their son did nothing wrong and that the knife at the scene of the crime was a plant.
Elor Azaria's case has divided Israel, with many -- particularly on the right -- saying he did nothing wrong. The situation has become a difficult one for the country's political leadership to navigate.
The scandal was triggered by a video taken at the scene by Imad Abu Shamsiya and uploaded onto Facebook. Since then, he has received death threats and has had to erect a metal grid to protect his yard from stones thrown at his house by Jewish settlers.
Hebron has long been a flashpoint, with frequent clashes between settlers and Palestinians. Six hundred settlers live in the city and they are protected by about 3,000 Israeli soldiers. This image is from a clash in October of 2015.
In recent months, Palestinians have increasingly been attacking Israelis and Israeli soldiers with knives. In this image from September 2016, Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian man in Hebron.
The Israeli army has set up barricades and road blocks throughout the city of Hebron, suffocating the life out of the city center.
