Abbas’s Fatah Party Picks Convicted Terrorist Who Murdered Six Jews as Mayoral Candidate

The Times of Israel reports: The convicted murderer of six Israelis in a 1980 terror attack was elected to head Hebron’s municipal council on Sunday, as West Bank Palestinians went to local elections.

Tayseer Abu Sneineh was selected by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah to head the party’s list in Hebron for Saturday’s West Bank elections. Despite the party winning only seven of 15 seats in the West Bank’s largest city, according to official results, Abu Sneineh will have a mandate to head the council.

Abu Sneineh was one of four Palestinian terrorists who on May 2, 1980 attacked a group of Israelis and Jews in a Hebron alley, firing and hurling grenades at them. The attack killed US citizens Tzvi Glatt and Eli HaZe’ev, Canadian Shmuel Marmelstein and Israelis Hanan Krauthammer, Gershon Klein and Ya’akov Zimmerman. Another 20 people were injured in the attack.

The four terrorists were all sentenced to life in prison, but were released in prisoner exchanges later in the decade.