Word: zak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mahmoud Slieman Zak, 15, sat in the shade of an old building beside the highway that bisects the strip and gossiped idly with a friend. He was an indifferent pupil in school and wanted only to become a fulltime member of the Palestinian guerrillas for whom he had already been on eleven grenade-tossing missions. That morning Mahmoud fondled a grenade, wondering whether a target would present itself...
...Israeli sweep. Green-bereted border police, rough Druze rather than Hebrew, came to help; incidents mounted until one officer and what the army described as "a number of soldiers" were charged with unnecessary brutality toward Arab civilians in the course of their searches. Informers eventually turned up Mahmoud Slieman Zak, who had been paid $28 to toss the grenade. Israel rarely invokes the death penalty, so the boy was sentenced to seven life terms plus 50 years. Mahmoud showed little emotion until the judge said that there was not enough evidence to prove that the boy belonged to a clandestine...