An Israeli court has convicted two Palestinians of involvement in the assassination of an ultra-nationalist Israeli cabinet minister a year ago.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said its members shot dead Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi in a Jerusalem hotel to avenge Israel's killing of its leader Abu Ali Mustafa in August 2001.
The Jerusalem District Court convicted Mahmoud Rimawi, a resident of the West Bank town of Beit Rima near Ramallah, for helping plan the killing, then renting and driving the getaway car, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Salah Alawi, from the West Bank town of al-Azariya outside Jerusalem, was convicted of conspiracy for providing a safehouse and transport and will be sentenced at a later date.
Both men were arrested in their hometowns in October 2001 soon after Mr Ze'evi's murder.
The Palestinian Authority in April sentenced four men to up to 18 years hard labour for killing Mr Ze'evi in a trial inside President Yasser Arafat's besieged headquarters. Israel had wanted them to be extradited.
Mr Ze'evi was chairman of the rightist Moledet party that has advocated a "transfer" policy of expelling Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and sprinkled with Jewish settlements.