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Terrorist’s two children cited in court’s lenient sentence

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades member received 17 years for firing five rockets at Sderot. 

Security personnel at the scene where a Gazan rocket hit a home and a car in Sderot, Oct. 17, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Security personnel at the scene where a Gazan rocket hit a home and a car in Sderot, Oct. 17, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

A plea deal for an Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist, who shot five rockets at Sderot, took into account the attacker’s two children, Israel’s Channel 13 reported.

“Public interest? Haven’t you heard about October 7?” the station’s Almog Boker wrote. “Who comes to a plea deal with a terrorist who hid rockets in his backyard and then launched five rockets into Sderot and tried to murder our children?”

The terrorist should at least receive life in prison, Boker added.

In giving the unnamed terrorist a sentence of 17 years, the judge cited “the lack of previous convictions, the time that passed and because he has two children.”

The judges also noted that “it is difficult to exaggerate the severity of the actions of the suspect, who was a substantial link in carrying out rocket launches at Sderot, indiscriminate fire at the population with the aim of mass killing as well as property damage.

“To our dismay, the reality teaches that these actions have more than once led to deadly results,” the judges added.

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