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Israeli court retains jail sentence against Gazan businessman

Saturday 9-May-2020

Israel’s district court in Beersheba city has turned down an appeal submitted by the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs against the prison verdict that were issued recently against 53-year-old prisoner Sabri Qindeel a businessman from the Gaza Strip.

According to the Commission the Beersheba court decided to retain the three-year prison sentence that had been issued previously against prisoner Qindeel and to reduce the financial penalty to 75000 shekels.

Prisoner Qindeel a businessman and father of six children was kidnaped by the Israeli intelligence at the Beit Hanoun (Erez) border crossing in northern Gaza in July 2018 after he went there for an interview thinking he would be allowed to travel to the 1948 occupied lands on a business trip.

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