YnetNews.com reports: “A man who fired a shotgun outside an upstate New York synagogue with dozens of children inside shortly after the start of the Israel-Hamas war was sentenced in federal court in New York Tuesday to 10 years in prison.

Mufid Alkhader, 29, was arrested in December 2023 after firing two shots in the air and shouting ‘Free Palestine!’ outside Temple Israel of Albany. No one was injured, but the incident terrified many of the 61 children attending preschool there and the adult staffers who had to shelter in place.

‘My daughter was in Hebrew class with her teacher, whose own child was on the other side of the building,’ Rachel Mandel told the court. ‘Her amazing teacher held, hid and comforted my child. She prepared herself and the children in her care to die as victims of hate.’

The shots were fired hours before the first night of Hanukkah and two months after the October 7 Hamas massacre triggered the war. Federal prosecutors say Alkhader, whose gun jammed after the second shot, complained about events in the Middle East after his arrest…”