A military court imposed life sentences Monday on five terrorists, including two Palestinians from Kalkilya who were convicted of murdering an Israeli soldier they picked up as a hitchhiker. The others, two Syrians and a Pakistani, were captured seven months ago when they landed in Israel in a rubber boat on a terrorist mission. The court found that their orders were to seize hostages for the release of imprisoned members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and if that was not possible, to kill anyone they met.
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