Palestinian Media Watch called for the killer’s rearrest and imprisonment due to his collection of monthly stipends under the P.A.'s “pay for slay” programs.
Ibrahim Abu Mukh, the head of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and murdered IDF soldier Moshe Tamam in August 1984, was released from an Israeli prison on Monday.
Abu Mukh, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, along with three others in his cell, kidnapped Tamam, 19, who was hitchhiking to his home while on leave. They took him to Abu Mukh’s home in the Israeli Arab town of Baqa al-Gharbiye. They first tortured Tamam and then drove him to an olive grove in Samaria, where they shot him through the chest, killing him. The terrorists were arrested two years later and sentenced to life in prison.
In 2012, then-Israeli President Shimon Peres commuted the life sentences of seven Arab Israelis who killed IDF soldiers. One of them was Abu Mukh. “It was a gesture to [Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud] Abbas,” Itamar Marcus, founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), told JNS. “Peres changed it to 40 years.”
