An Israeli military court sentenced a Palestinian to 13 years in jail Wednesday for aiding in the 1994 kidnapping and murder of an Israeli soldier. Ziad Zohidi Najib, 35, was convicted of allowing Hamas terrorists to use his house in a village north of Jerusalem, where they later held and murdered Nachshon Wachsman.
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