Photo Credit: : Jerusalem Fire Department
The fire department evacuated 3 buildings after discovering multiple cut gas lines and a lit flame near one of the cut lines.

Aziz Awisat (49), from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail.

Awisat was convicted of 9 cases of attempted murder for trying to kill Jews by cutting the gas lines in nine building in the Armon HaNatziv neighborhood.

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In 2012, he tried to kill a Chareidi man with an ax on HaNeviim street in Jerusalem, badly wounding him.

Awisat came up with the idea while visiting a Bituach Leumi (National Insurance) office to collect money from the state of Israel. He heard guards talking about the explosion in Gilo and decided to replicate it as a terror attack.

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