GAZA: MILITARY COURT ISSUES THREE DEATH SENTENCES

October 12, 2011: The Permanent Military Court in Gaza sentenced Bilal Saad al-Masri, 22, from Beit Lahia housing project, and Jihad Abdullah al-Sab', 23, from Sheikh Zayed housing town in the north of the Gaza Strip, to death by hanging after convicting them for “terrorism” in accordance with the Palestinian Revolutionary Penal Code of 1979. 
The defendants were convicted of blowing up an explosive near al-Waha Café in al-Remal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, killing Rami Jamil Ashour, 27, and wounding five other Palestinians. The same Court sentenced, on 11 October 2011, R. A. B., 36, from Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza, to death by hanging after convicting him for treason, also in accordance with the Palestinian Revolutionary Penal Code of 1979. (Sources: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights-PCHR, 12/10/2011)