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Israel sentences minister's murderer to life imprisonment, additional 80 years |
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19:30, September 22, 2008 |
An Israeli court on Monday sentenced a Palestinian activist to life imprisonment and additional 80 years for his involvement in the killing of Israeli tourism minister in 2001 in Jerusalem.
The 43-year-old Majdi al-Rimawi, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), is believed to be the mastermind of the operation in which the Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi was shot dead at his room in the Jerusalem Hyatt Hotel.
The PFLP claimed responsibility for assassinating Ze'evi in response to the killing of its Secretary General Abu Ali Mustafa in an Israeli air strike at his office in Ramallah in the same year.
Al-Rimawi's lawyer questioned the legality of the trail, saying the Jerusalem District Court was unauthorized to deal with this case since the assassination of the minister took place "in east Jerusalem which is a territory under occupation."
In March 2006, Israel seized al-Rimawi and his three colleagues when the Israeli forces raided a Palestinian-run detention facility in West Bank city of Jericho where the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) held the PFLP activists. The raid on Jericho prison violated an earlier deal between Israel and the PNAto keep the suspects in a Palestinian prison.
Source:Xinhua
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