An
Israeli military court jailed a prominent Palestinian lawyer for 13 and a half years on Tuesday for
shooting at Israeli vehicles in the occupied West Bank, the army said.
Tareq Barghout, a Ramallah-based lawyer who represented
Palestinians accused by Israel of security-related offences, was himself arrested in February, along with Palestinian Authority official Zakaria Zubeidi.
Zubeidi, a former head of a militant group who later became an official of the PA commission for Palestinians in Israeli jails, is still awaiting trial.