[Ynet News ] Ali Waked - The Beersheba District Court handed down two life-sentences on Sunday to Gaza resident Sharif Ziyada, who was convicted of attempting to bring the Kassam rocket manufacturing industry to the West Bank. Ziyada, who was arrested while trying to infiltrate the Egyptian border into Israel in October 2005, was convicted of heading an initiative to begin manufacturing rockets in the West Bank on behalf of the Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees.
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