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PA court sentences Palestinian-American to life in land case
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Palestinian Authority court has sentenced Issam Akel, a Palestinian American and a resident of Jerusalem, to life in prison for attempting to sell land to Jewish Israelis in Jerusalem, an official in the PA judiciary’s media office says.
Akel “was sentenced on Monday, but he can appeal the ruling,” the official, who asked to remain unnamed, tells The Times of Israel.
A report on the PA judiciary’s website says an individual with the same initials as Akel was sentenced to life in prison for “attempting to take a part of the Palestinian lands and add it to a foreign state.”
Akel, a resident of Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood, is a holder of a blue Israeli identification card.
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