JS: A court on Wednesday convicted an accomplice in the 2002 suicide attack on a historic Tunisian synagogue that killed 21 people? – mostly German tourists, judicial officials said.

Belgacem Nawar, 44, was given a 20-year sentence by the Tunis court. He is the uncle of Nizar Nawar, who carried out the April 2002 attack on the picturesque resort island of Djerba by ramming a gas-laden truck into the synagogue.