Longest serving Jordanian prisoner in Israel arrives home
The longest serving Jordanian prisoner in an Israeli jail arrived home on Tuesday after completing a 20-year sentence for planting a bomb on an Israeli bus that injured more than a dozen people. Abdullah Abu Jaber, 44, was arrested after the explosive device went off on the bus in Tel Aviv in December 2000. He was one of thousands of Jordanians who found casual work in Israel after the two countries normalised ties with a peace treaty in 1994. Abu Jaber, who was among 22 political prisoners held in Israeli jails, headed to his parents' home in the teeming Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp near the Jordanian capital Amman, witnesses said.
Source: reuters.com