Story highlights The soldier is released to confinement on a military base

Video appears to show the soldier shooting a wounded Palestinian man on the ground

The man was suspected of stabbing an Israeli soldier in Hebron

Jerusalem (CNN) An Israeli solder faces a charge of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a wounded Palestinian man suspected in a knife attack in Hebron, the Israeli military said Friday.

Initially, the soldier, whose identity has not been released, could have faced a murder charge after video appeared to show him shooting the Palestinian suspect in the head as he lay on the ground, already subdued. The soldier, who was being held in a military prison, has been released to confinement on a military base, despite the objection of the prosecution.

In a court hearing Thursday, military prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed that the soldier shot the suspect on the ground, according to Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

In dispute is the motive and the reasoning behind the shooting. Defense attorneys say the soldier felt his life was in danger.

However, an initial assessment of the shooting found that the Palestinian posed "no apparent threat to the soldiers and medics in the area," according to the IDF. It found that the soldier who shot the man arrived six minutes after the stabbing and that a few more minutes elapsed before the soldier shot the suspect.

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