A Palestinian who masterminded suicide bomb attacks in Jerusalem has been given 26 consecutive life sentences.
The Israeli military court decided that Muaid Said, 31, should serve full life terms for each of the 21 Israelis killed in the two attacks in 1997.
Said was also given a life term each for the five Palestinian bombers whom he sent on the missions.
Said planned the bombings a year after he joined the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, the military prosecutor told the judge.
"It's notable that, according to his world view, life has no worth and there's no meaning to the fact that 26 souls found their deaths in these two grave incidents," wrote the judge in his decision.
Said said the bombings were a "natural reaction" to the Israeli government's crimes against the Palestinian people.
"My belief in God is greater because the judgment it is his decision, or found in his hands, and not in the hands of the court," Said said. "I'm a firm believer."
PA