NABLUS, February 1, 2011 (WAFA) – A Nablus court Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian to 10 years in prison with hard labor on charges of selling land to Israelis.

The First Instance Court of Nablus sentenced the 70-year- old Palestinian after he was found guilty of selling land to “the enemy” in 1981, according to the information department of the attorney general’s office.

Baha El Ahmad, head of the attorney general’s Nablus office, told WAFA that Attorney General Ahmad Mughani intends to prosecute any person who “endangers national security” by selling land to Israelis, describing such act as “a crime that harms all the Palestinian people.”

The sentence was based on the Jordanian criminal law of the 1960s, which still applies in the West Bank when it was under Jordanian rule between 1948 and 1967. The law also allows invoking the death sentence in cases of selling property to “enemy” states.