Nisan Ishegoyev

Nisan (or Nissan) Ishegoyev

In 1982, Nisan Ishegoyev fired his Uzi machine-gun into an alley from which Palestinian children were throwing stones, and killed a 13-year-old boy. His punishment was three months’ public service.

(Source: LRB, article "Grab more hills, expand the territory" by Henry Siegman
and posted at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n07/sieg01_.html), which is a review of the books
* The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-77 by Gershom Gorenberg
* Lords of the Land: The War over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 by Idith Zertal



Murder carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in Israel, and, in the context of genocide, murder is subject to the death sentence according to Israeli laws.

The sentence which Ishegoyev received is indicative of judicial procedures which have the objective of protecting him as a perpetrator from the consequences of his crime.

Information about Ishegoyev and the quoted incident is incomplete.