An Israeli military court convicted a Hamas terrorist of involvement in two suicide bomb attacks in Jerusalem in 1997. The prosecutor asked the court Monday to sentence Ahmer El-Zibben of Nablus to 21 consecutive life sentences, one for each of the victims killed in the Mahane Yehuda market and Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall attacks.
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