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Court rules PA must pay $142 million to families of Israeli terror victims

The Jerusalem District Court ruling, on behalf of eight families, follows a decision last summer that the Palestinian Authority was liable for damages of up to NIS 1 billion ($284 million).

by  JNS and Israel Hayom Staff
Published on  04-27-2020 06:29
Last modified: 04-27-2020 06:32
PA vexed by ICC report slamming 'pay-for-slay' policy as potential war crimeAFP/Abbas Momani

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The Jerusalem District Court ruled on Friday that the Palestinian Authority must pay NIS 500 million ($142 million) to the families of those killed in Palestinian terrorist attacks, mostly during the Second Intifada (2000-2005).

Judge Moshe Drori ruled last July that the PA was liable for damages of up to NIS 1 billion ($284 million), since which time the Israeli legal organization Shurat HaDin worked to prove damages on behalf of eight families representing 17 complaints in which 34 Israelis were murdered and seven wounded, mostly between the years 2000 and 2002.

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While some of the attacks also involved Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the court is holding the PA liable based on its statements taking credit for all Second Intifada terrorist attacks, and on its providing support for the groups carrying out the attacks, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Due to what it said were the complex diplomatic implications of the decision, the court ruled that the amount collected would be just NIS 500 million for now, with payment spread out over time, according to the report.

The money, it said, will come out of the PA's "pay to slay" funds, as well as the customs tax that the PA pays Israel each month. ("Pay to Slay" refers to a PA fund from which monthly cash stipends are disbursed to the families of Palestinians killed, injured or imprisoned for involvement in terror attacks or other types of politically-motivated violence against Israelis.)

Following the ruling, Shurat HaDin President Nitsana Darshan-Leitner maintained that the organization will not end the fight until there is justice for the victims of terror.

"Convicting the terrorists does not end with their imprisonment, as long as the Palestinian Authority [continues to fund them] and encourages acts of terrorism. The Palestinian Authority will know that there is a price for the blood on its hands, a very expensive price, and now it will need to pay," she said.

The decision comes just ahead of Israel's Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day, which begins on Monday evening.

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.  

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