![People gather to offer their condolences in front of 49-year-old Tunisian engineer and drone expert Mohammed Al-Zawari's house who was assassinated in Sfax, Tunisia on 18 December 2016 [Houssem Zouari/Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20161218_2_20776596_17140396-scaled.jpg)
A Tunisian court on Tuesday issued landmark rulings in the case of the assassination of Mohamed Zouari, a senior figure in Hamas’s armed wing, sentencing the accused to life imprisonment. The court also handed down prison sentences of more than 100 years for each of the 11 defendants, including Tunisians and foreign nationals, for other terrorism-related charges Mohamed Zouari, a Tunisian engineer and a prominent leader in Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, was shot dead outside his home in the southern city of Sfax on 15 December 2016. The killing was widely attributed at the time to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Zouari was born in Tunisia in 1967 and studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Sfax, where he earned […]
