The Islamic Jihad members who dispatched a female suicide bomber to a Haifa cafe received multiple life terms in jail. An Israeli military court Thursday sentenced Amajad Abeidi, 36, an Islamic Jihad leader in the West Bank city of Jenin, to 23 life sentences and another 50 years in jail, Ha’aretz said.
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