Israel sentences Palestinian youth to 9.5 years in jail

‘Israel’s supreme court has sentenced a Palestinian youth accused of alleged attempt on life of two Israelis to 9.5 years in jail down from an earlier sentence of 12 years in prison.
Leah Tsemel, the lawyer of the Palestinian, said on Thursday that the sentence was reduced to nine and a half years by the court. She added that a 180,000 shekel ($47,000) fine will remain in place.
“It is not the best we wanted, but that’s what we got,” media outlets quoted the lawyer as saying.
Last November, an Israeli court sentenced Ahmad Saleh Manasra, now 15, to 12 years in jail on the charge of attempting to murder a 20-year-old man and a 12-year-old boy in the illegal Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev in East Jerusalem al-Quds on October 12, 2015.’

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