A military tribunal this week imposed a life sentence on a terrorist held responsible for the booby-trapped refrigerator which exploded in Jerusalem’s Zion Square July 1975 killing 14 persons. The court said that Ahmed Haj-Jabara, a member of El fatah who was briefed in Damascus before planting the bomb, must spend the first 10 years of his sentence at hard labor.
Meanwhile, the army announced that it has uncovered eight more terrorist cells on the West Bank and has detained 64 persons. Five of the cells were Fatah groups, two from the Palestine National Front and one from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The army said that one Fatah group was uncovered in the Jordan Valley village of Einaja after a clash with an Israeli army unit and was found to be smuggling arms and explosives from Jordan to the West Bank. One group in Ramallah placed explosives in several places and another group in Kalkilya had been setting telephone poles afire. Arms, explosives and detonation devices had been found in possession of the people held by the security forces.
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