A Palestinian tribunal ordered the release of a radical Palestinian leader who Israel claims ordered the assassination of Cabinet Minister Rehavam Ze’evi. The court in the Gaza Strip said Monday there was no evidence linking the secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Sa’adat, to last October’s murder of Ze’evi in a Jerusalem hotel.
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