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2019-07-31 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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East Jerusalem lawyer sentenced to 13.5 years in jail for shooting attacks
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[IsraelTimes]  Tarek Barghout convicted of carrying out several attacks against Israelis in West Bank alongside Paleostinian former terror leader Zakaria Zubeidi.
The Ofer Military Court on Tuesday sentenced an East Jerusalem lawyer to 13.5 years in jail over four shooting attacks against Israelis in the West Bank, Hebrew-language media reported.
Tarek Barghout, who has an Israeli ID card and belongs to Israel’s Bar Association but lives in Ramallah, committed some of the attacks together with Paleostinian former terrorist leader Zakaria Zubeidi,
| ..for many years he was head of the Al Aqsa Martyr Brigades in Jenin, though in recent years the PA exiled him to Ramallah. The Martyr Brigades are the military wing of Fatah. It was claimed the Brigades were dismantled in 2007, but evidence militates against that, given that many members work for PA security forces during the day... |
who is being charged with carrying out attacks against Israelis dating back over a decade.
Both Zubeidi and Barghout worked for the PA’s Prisoner Affairs Ministry.
All the terror attacks committed by Barghout ended without casualties or with Israelis suffering minor wounds from glass shards, the reports said.
Barghout signed a plea deal with prosecutors, which in a rare occurrence was reached during the initial stages of the investigation.
He began cooperating with his interrogators only after the deal’s principles were laid out. During his questioning, Barghout incriminated Zubeidi.
Both have been in jug since their arrest in late February in Ramallah. Both men were charged in the Samaria Military Court in May.
The Shin Bet security service has said Barghout and Zubeidi shot up an Israeli bus traveling outside the Psagot settlement last December, but failed to hit their target due to inclement weather.
According to the agency, the two had been planning to carry out another shooting attack on the night they were arrested. An M-16 assault rifle and magazines that the security service said were used in the attacks were found in their possession at the time of the arrest raid.
Up until his arrest, Barghout worked on behalf of the Paleostinian Authority representing terror suspects in both civilian courts in Israel and military courts in the West Bank.
Since Zubeidi is accused of many more attacks, including some that had previously been excused under an amnesty deal, the case against him was still ongoing. In May, the Samaria Military Court ordered that he be held behind bars until the legal proceeding against him were completed.
Zubeidi, a 43-year-old former commander for Fatah’s military wing, has been indicted on 24 counts for his role in a number of shooting and bombing attacks starting in 2003.
During the Second Intifada, which broke out in 2000, Zubeidi served as the commander in the Jenin region of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. He was also suspected of being one of the chief architects of several terror attacks during that time period.
Tareq Barghout, a Ramallah-based lawyer who represented Paleostinians accused by Israel of security-related offenses, was himself arrested in February, along with Paleostinian Authority official Zakaria Zubeidi.
"Barghout fired at Israeli buses and at security forces on a number of occasions," the army said.
Zubeidi, a former head of a bad boy group who later became an official of the PA commission for Paleostinians in Israeli jails, is still awaiting trial.
Both men were charged in May with carrying out shooting attacks in the Ramallah area between November 2016 and January 2019, in which three Israelis were slightly injured.
According to Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security agency the pair used Zubeidi’s official PA vehicle for transport.
Israeli lawyer Leah Tsemel, representing Barghout, said that he alone fired the shots.
"He said in his statement that he opened fire after feeling that Paleostinians were being treated very unjustly by Israeli courts," she told AFP.
She said that he was also distressed by having to accompany bereaved Paleostinians to receive from Israeli authorities the bodies of loved ones killed in conflict with Israeli forces.
"Once, Barghout fired from a distance at a settlers’ bus to make them understand that they can never feel secure in the occupied territories," Tsemel said. 
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