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PA dedicating monument honoring terrorist murderer who killed 15 civilians

"The [PLO] Commission of Prisoners' Affairs announced that the monument to Martyr (Shahid) prisoner Ahmad Jabarah Abu Sukkar, who died on July 16, 2013, will be erected today in the town where he was born, Turmus Ayya, under the auspices of the Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh District [Laila Ghannam], the Prisoners' Club, and the Turmus Ayya municipality... It should be noted that Abu Sukkar served 27 years in the occupation's prisons. He was sentenced to a life sentence and an additional 30 years on charges of carrying out a military operation (i.e., terror attack) in Tel Aviv (sic., Jerusalem) in 1975, and was released in 2003 with the intervention of Martyr President Yasser Arafat."
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Ahmad Jabarah Abu Sukkar - planned a bombing attack in 1975 in which a refrigerator filled with explosives was detonated in Jerusalem. 15 people were killed and over 60 people were wounded. He was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years, but was released from prison after 28 years as part of a goodwill gesture from Israel to the PA in 2003. He was a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council and an advisor to Arafat on prisoners' affairs. He died of a heart attack in 2013 in the PA.

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