JERUSALEM: An Israeli court said yesterday it has jailed for 30 months two senior Hamas members who took refugee inside Red Cross east Jerusalem offices for a year and a half.
The Jerusalem district court issued the sentence as part of a plea bargain in which former Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs Khaled Abu Arafeh and Hamas MP Mohammed Totah admitted to “membership of a terror organisation” and staying in Israel without permits.
The two had barricaded themselves inside the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross on July 1, 2010 and were arrested on January 23, 2012.
AFP
