An Israeli court on Wednesday sentenced a Palestinian to 16 years in prison for a knife attack that wounded an Israeli in Jerusalem in May, the justice ministry said. Mohammed Bader, 21 and from Abu Dis in the occupied West Bank on the outskirts of Jerusalem, was accused of having stabbed an ultra-Orthodox Jew on May 16 as he was walking with his wife and two of his children.
A plea bargain saw him plead guilty to attempted murder. Several stiff sentences have been handed out recently to Palestinians convicted for attacks. On Monday, an Israeli court jailed a Palestinian for life for the 2015 killing of two Israelis and the wounding of a third in a Tel Aviv knife attack. At a separate court hearing Monday in Lod, near Tel Aviv, judges jailed another Palestinian for 16 years and six months. Since October, 241 Palestinians, 36 Israelis, two Americans, a Jordanian, an Eritrean and a Sudanese have been killed, according to an AFP count.