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Life in Jail for Five Terror Convicts in Bahrain

Life in Jail for Five Terror Convicts in Bahrain
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Life in Jail for Five Terror Convicts in Bahrain

Life in Jail for Five Terror Convicts in Bahrain

A Bahraini court has sentenced five terror suspects who are Bahraini nationals to life in prison. A sixth convict was given five years in prison.

The six convicts formed a terrorist cell run from outside Bahrain and whose members planned to target the Kingdom’s ATMs by planting explosive devices inside them.

Chief of Terror Crime Prosecution, Advocate-General Chancellor Ahmed Al Hammadi confirmed that the first High Criminal Court issued verdicts against six terror suspects. The suspects were found guilty of joining a terrorist group.

They were also charged with possessing and acquiring explosives as well as training on making and using explosives. The six suspects were fined BD 500 each.

According to case documents, Public Prosecution was notified that the convicts had received instructions from abroad to target vital economic facilities in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

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Hamas Claims Attack on Israeli Bus in West Bank That Wounded 8 People, Including 4 Soldiers

Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP
Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP
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Hamas Claims Attack on Israeli Bus in West Bank That Wounded 8 People, Including 4 Soldiers

Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP
Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP

Hamas claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on an Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank on Friday that wounded eight people, including four soldiers.

It was the latest violence to scar the territory as tensions run high 14 months into the Israel-Hamas war.

The attacker, who Hamas identified in a statement as Samer Hussein, 46, was killed by Israeli troops shortly after opening fire toward the bus at a junction near the Israeli settlement of Ariel.

The military said four soldiers were lightly wounded. Paramedics said three people were critically wounded.

Attacks by Palestinian fighters on Israelis in the volatile territory have grown more common since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, as Palestinian deaths have also spiked.  

Israeli fire has killed 796 Palestinians since Oct. 7, 2023, mostly in military raids on Palestinian cities and towns. Attacks by settlers on Palestinians and their property have also increased.