JERUSALEM, Israel -- Senior Hamas bomb maker Abdullah al-Barghouti, serving 67 life sentences for multiple terror attacks, has been placed in solitary confinement for conducting a phone interview from his cell.
Barghouti, who spoke with a Gaza-based radio station on a smuggled cellphone, told the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the terror group's "military" wing, it should show no mercy to "the Israeli enemy."
Israeli prison authorities are investigating how Barghouti got the phone and said he would be disciplined for conducting the interview. The senior Hamas operative was sentenced in 2004 in the deaths of 66 Israelis.
One of his best known attacks was the 2001 bombing of the Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem's city center that killed 15 and injured 130.
Barghouti's cousin, Marwan, former head of Fatah Tanzim militia, is serving five life sentences plus 40 years for masterminding multiple terror attacks that killed scores of Israelis.
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