Jewish terrorist jailed for setting school ablaze

Hand in Hand school has equal number of Palestinian and Israeli pupils

Afar-right Jewish activist who set fire to a IsraeliPalestinian school in occupied Jerusalem was sentenced on Tuesday to three years’ imprisonment for the attack that targeted a rare symbol of co-existence in the holy city.

The defendant, Yitzhak Gabbai, 24, is a member of Lehava, an anti-Palestinian group. An occupied Jerusalem court found that he and two accomplices set fire to a classroom in the “Hand in Hand” school a year ago.

No one was hurt in the night-time arson attack, during which “Death to Arabs” was daubed on a schoolyard wall. One of Gabbai’s accomplices received a two-and-ahalf-year jail term in July and the other a two-year sentence.

Crackdown

More than 600 children attend Hand in Hand, which has an equal number of Israeli and Palestinian pupils. There are four other such schools in the Hand in Hand network in Israel. Israeli regime leaders have pledged to crack down on antiArab hate crimes in Israel and the Occupied Territories.