Had the defendants been only convicted of less dangerous rock throwing, lighter sentences might have been less surprising.
"On a peaceful border, defense is on one side; on a wartime border, defense must be on both sides of the border with freedom of action," Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar said.
IDF rejects criticism of attacks in Lebanon as illegal.
In the Islamic Middle East, doctrinal antisemites have remained faithful to their most primal hatreds.
Israeli authorities have long called for the agency to be dismantled, arguing that its mission is obsolete and fosters anti-Israeli sentiment, something UNRWA has vigorously denied.
Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri was born in 1966 and detained in the 1990s by Israel. He eventually left prison and moved to Turkey before migrating to Qatar and Lebanon.
Eilat, which sits adjacent to Jordan's only coastal access point at Aqaba, offers Israel a gateway to the East without the need to navigate the Suez Canal.
Only Iran and its nuclear weapons program fit in the category of existential threat to Israel.
While IDF intel confirmed that Islamic Jihad were responsible for the Al Ahli hospital blast, that did not end the calls to blame Israel for the explosion.
"This is our 9/11," said a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces. "They got us."
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