The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced Fatah Tanzim terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti today to five life sentences plus 40 years.
Barghouti was found guilty on May 20 of organizing three terrorist attacks involving the deaths of five Israelis; planning a fourth attack; and membership in a terrorist organization. The Tel Aviv District court acquitted him of 33 other attacks, stating that the evidence in those cases only showed his indirect involvement.
Barghouti was found to have personally authorized and organized the Sea Food Market attack by two terrorists in Tel Aviv in which three Jews were killed in March 2002; the murder of Yoela Chen at a Givat Ze'ev gas station in January 2002; and the attack in which a Greek Orthodox monk was murdered on the highway to Maaleh Adumim in June 2001. Barghouti was also convicted of organizing a carbomb in southern Jerusalem, in which no one was hurt.
"The accused generally did not have direct contact with the people on the ground who perpetrated the attacks," last month's verdict stated. "The contact was made with people close to him, among them [his nephew] Ahmed Barghouti... who, with the support of the accused, planned and carried out the murderous attacks, using the money and arms that the accused made sure to supply to them for that purpose."
Barghouti was found guilty on May 20 of organizing three terrorist attacks involving the deaths of five Israelis; planning a fourth attack; and membership in a terrorist organization. The Tel Aviv District court acquitted him of 33 other attacks, stating that the evidence in those cases only showed his indirect involvement.
Barghouti was found to have personally authorized and organized the Sea Food Market attack by two terrorists in Tel Aviv in which three Jews were killed in March 2002; the murder of Yoela Chen at a Givat Ze'ev gas station in January 2002; and the attack in which a Greek Orthodox monk was murdered on the highway to Maaleh Adumim in June 2001. Barghouti was also convicted of organizing a carbomb in southern Jerusalem, in which no one was hurt.
"The accused generally did not have direct contact with the people on the ground who perpetrated the attacks," last month's verdict stated. "The contact was made with people close to him, among them [his nephew] Ahmed Barghouti... who, with the support of the accused, planned and carried out the murderous attacks, using the money and arms that the accused made sure to supply to them for that purpose."