Israel Hails U.S. Jury Verdict Blaming PLO, Palestinian Authority for Attacks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed a controversial U.S. federal court decision that found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian authority liable for backing six terror attacks committed more than a decade ago that left a number of American citizens dead or wounded.
Netanyahu’s office released a statement late Monday after the decision, saying Israel expected the wider international community “to continue to punish those who support terrorism just as the US federal court has done and to back the countries that are fighting terrorism.” The statement said, however, that there was “no justice that can console” the families of those who lost their loved ones in the attacks.
A jury in Manhattan awarded the victims of the 2002 and 2004 attacks $218.5 million in damages Monday — a figure that lawyers said would automatically be tripled under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act.
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