Gaza man given 19-year jail term for armed action against Israel

Date: 22 / 06 / 2009 Time: 20:57

[Ma'anImages]

Bethlehem – Ma’an – An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian man from Gaza to 19 years in prison for manufacturing pipe bombs and projectiles and firing them at Israel, the Israeli news site Ynet reported on Monday.

The Beersheba District Court also convicted the man of laying pipe bombs, one of them 15 kilograms in weight, in various places in the Gaza Strip with the intention of injuring or killing Israeli soldiers.

According to the report the man was a member of Hamas’ armed wing from the city of Khan Younis.

The report did not say when or how he was arrested. During its invasion of Gaza in January, the Israeli military detained dozens of men and women, bringing many of them to the Negev (Naqab in Arabic) prison camp.