JERUSALEM, December 28, 2016 (WAFA) – An Israeli court in Jerusalem Wednesday sentenced Abdul Aziz Mirie, 22, from the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the north of the West Bank, to 35 years in prison plus having to pay reparation amounting to $140,000 after convicting him of being an accessory to the killing of two Israelis in Jerusalem’s Old City in October of last year.

Mirie, a student at Al-Quds University near Jerusalem, was arrested days after Muhannad Halabi, from Ramallah, stabbed and killed two Israelis in Jerusalem and charged him of giving assistance to Halabi to enter Jerusalem in order to carry out the attack.

Mirie’s family members said the money will go as reparation to the families of the two dead Israelis.

The Israeli prosecutor had asked the court to sentence Mirie to two life terms but the court issued a sentence of 35 years plus the reparation fees.

The stabbing by Halabi had triggered a series of similar attacks and car ramming that left more than 30 Israelis dead. Israeli security forces had killed around 270 Palestinians since then after alleged attacks or during clashes in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, inside Israel and on Gaza Strip borders with Israel.

M.K.