Ex-MK who served 2-year sentence for smuggling phones to terrorist says he doesn’t regret act

Former Joint (Arab) List MK Bassel Ghattas says he doesn’t regret having smuggled cellphones to Palestinian security prisoners even though it landed him in prison for two years.

In an interview with Channel 12 news, the day after his release, Ghattas says that if he knew then the inner workings of Israeli prisons as he does now, he would not have tried to smuggle the phones because “now I know that it would have had no chance [of succeeding].”

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