Israel won't try PFLP leader for Zeevi murder

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"Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided Wednesday not to try the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Ahmed Sa'adat for involvement in the assassination of late tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi in a Jerusalem hotel in 2001.

After a series of consultations with State Prosecutor Eran Shendar and Shin Bet officials, Mazuz decided there was insufficient evidence to try Sa'adat for Zeevi's murder, opting instead to charge him with a number of security-related offenses."

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"Ze'evi was gunned down in October 2001 in response to Israel's targeted killing of Sa'adat's predecessor as PFLP secretary-general, Abu-Ali Mustafa, earlier that year."



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