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High-Profile Palestinian Terrorists to Be Released

(Ha'aretz) Josh Breiner - Slated for release is Mohammad Abu Warda, who was sentenced to 48 life terms for his role in two terror bombings on Jerusalem's bus line 18 in 1996, which killed 45 people. Tabet Mardawi, a senior figure in Islamic Jihad in Jenin, was involved in the murder of 20 Israelis and the injury of 150 others, and was sentenced to 21 life terms and an additional 40 years. During the Second Intifada, he was involved in a suicide bombing at a bus station in Binyamina, a shooting attack at the market in Hadera, a suicide bombing on a bus near Hadera, a car bombing in Hadera, a bombing at a restaurant in Kiryat Motzkin, a suicide bombing at the central bus station in Afula, and a suicide bombing on a bus in Wadi Ara. Mohammed Naifeh was sentenced to 13 life terms for dispatching the attackers responsible for the 2002 Kibbutz Metzer attack that killed five Israelis and ordering an attack on Hermesh in which three Israeli women were killed. Nassim Zaatari, a member of Hamas, was sentenced to 23 life terms for an attack on bus line 2 in Jerusalem in which 23 people were killed. Ashraf Zaghaiar, a senior Hamas figure, dispatched the suicide bomber responsible for a 2002 attack on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv. Ahmad Obeid was sentenced to seven life terms for dispatching the suicide bomber responsible for the 2004 Cafe Hillel attack in Jerusalem, which claimed the lives of seven people. Bilal Abu Ghanem carried out the 2015 bus attack in Jerusalem in which three people were killed. Leili Abu Ragila was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenager Eliyahu Asheri in Jerusalem in 2006. Sharif Naji was sentenced to four life terms for the 2002 bombing at the Seafood Market restaurant in Tel Aviv, which killed three Israelis, and for another attack in which a Border Police officer was killed. Riyad Arafat was convicted of murdering two soldiers, Lt. Ariel Buda and Sgt. Maj. Yosef Atiya, at Tapuach Junction in 2005. Raad Khalil was convicted of the 2015 stabbing attack at a synagogue in Tel Aviv in which two Israelis were killed. Ahmed Araf Khalil al-Asafra led the cell that murdered Dvir Sorek in Gush Etzion in 2019. Iyad Mahlawas was convicted of murdering Israeli Amir Simhon in Jaffa in 2003. Ibrahim Sarahna transported bombers involved in three suicide attacks.
2025-01-19 00:00:00
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