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Jerusalem Court Orders Palestine, Terrorists To Pay $18 Million As Compensation For Terror Attack
District Court in Jerusalem, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
An Israeli judge has ordered the Palestinian Authority (PA) and perpetrators of a deadly 2001 attack to pay 18 million in damages to relatives of those killed.
The Jerusalem District Court named imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti as one of the seven liable to compensate relatives for their role in the shooting that killed three family members.
The ruling, handed down on Thursday by justice Moshe Drori, awarded the relatives 62 millions shekels ( 18 million, 15 million euros), which is to be divided between the PA, which would pay 40 per cent, and the seven Palestinian perpetrators, who would pay 60 per cent.
The attack, which took place on a West Bank highway on August 25, 2001, claimed the lives of Yaniv and Sharon Ben Shalom, a couple, and Sharon's brother Doron Sviri.
The families had sued the PA and as well as the perpetrators, among them Barghouti.
Barghouti is serving prison terms for his position as the leader of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah group that has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks.
Justice Drori found the PA liable as it had encouraged the attacks and effectively was an accessory by supplying the guns to the security forces that were ultimately used and by funding the perpetrators.
It was not immediately clear if the family would take the money from the PA and imprisoned Palestinians, and how. (PTI)
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