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Monday, October 23, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Monday, October 23, 2017
East Jerusalemite sentenced to 16 years for planning terror attack
A Jerusalem court sentenced an Arab resident of the city to 16 years in prison for planning to carry out a terror attack during a wave of terror attacks in October 2015.
The man, 22-year-old Bahaa Iwisat of the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, was arrested in the Jewish neighborhood of Nof Zion after residents reported he was acting suspiciously.
When police came, they found that he was hiding a knife up his sleeve. During his interrogation, he said he’d planned to use the knife in a stabbing attack.
He was convicted earlier this year.
