PA news agency describes terrorist killer of 3 as “Martyr” and calls the attack an “operation”
Headline: “The occupation sentenced prisoner Bilal Ghanem to 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years”
“Attorney for the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Muhammad Mahmoud announced today (Monday) [July 11, 2016] that the occupation’s district court in occupied Jerusalem sentenced prisoner Bilal Ghanem from Jabel Mukaber in occupied Jerusalem to 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years.
Mahmoud added that the court imposed very high monetary fines on Ghanem that reach a total of 1,900,000 Israeli shekels: 750,000 shekels as compensation to the families of those killed, 150,000 to every injured person, and 100,000 to the driver of the bus on which the operation (i.e., terror attack, 3 murdered) was carried out.
It should be noted that prisoner Ghanem carried out a shooting and stabbing operation, together with Martyr (Shahid) Baha Alyan, in a settler bus in the Armon Hanatziv area of occupied Jerusalem on Oct. 13 last year [2015], one day after the terrorist attack of settlers against the boy prisoner Ahmad Manasrah (Israeli police apprehended him after he stabbed 2 people –Ed.).
The indictment filed by the Israeli prosecution against Ghanem includes the murder of 3 settlers and an attempt to murder an additional 11. The details of the operation, as they appeared in the indictment, are as follows: Before they carried out the operation, Bilal Ghanem and Alyan talked about the invasions of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque being perpetrated by the occupation and its settlers, and the burning of the Dawabsheh family by settlers. It was noted that these were the reasons that caused Alyan and Ghanem to carry out the operation. The two bought a handgun for 20,000 shekels to carry out the operation.
Likewise it was said that the two arrived at the place of the operation, exchanged a signal between them, and then began to carry out the operation. Ghanem opened fire on the settlers sitting in the back of the bus, while Alyan began to stab with a knife… the Israeli occupation authorities continue to hold the body of Martyr Baha Alyan, and have refused to transfer it [to his family] since the operation and until now. Likewise, they demolished the home of his family at the beginning of the year [2016].”
Baha Alyan and Bilal Ghanem
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Invading Al-Aqsa Mosque