A 31 year-old Arab fisherman from Acre, named Muhamad Najami, was sentenced by the Jerusalem District Court today to six years’ imprisonment, after being convicted of spying for Egypt. According to the prosecution, he had traveled at night in a small boat from Jaffa to the Gaza Strip, but was apprehended by an Israeli sea patrol before he entered the Egyptian-held Strip.
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