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Two Jerusalem Arabs sentenced for bomb plot near Knesset

Mustafa Abd Al-Nabi received a 12-year sentence, while Ahmad Natasha was sentenced to five years for the planned bombing attack.

View of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, on Aug. 13,2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
View of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, in Jerusalem, on Aug. 13,2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

A Jerusalem court sentenced two eastern Jerusalem residents to prison on Tuesday for plotting a bombing attack near the Knesset, according to the State Prosecutor’s Office.

Mustafa Abd Al-Nabi received a 12-year sentence, while Ahmad Natasha was sentenced to five years, plus a suspended term.

The Jerusalem District Court convicted the men of planning the terror attack near Israel’s parliament building.

Israeli security forces recently broke up a major Hamas terror network in the Judean city of Bethlehem, including a cell in the advanced stages of preparing an attack. Over 50 operatives were arrested and weapons confiscated in more than 15 separate operations.

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