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Terror victims' relatives file NIS 450m suit against PA, Barghouti
By Haaretz Service
Tags: PA, Marwan Barghouti 

The relatives of terror victims on Thursday filed a NIS 450 million class action lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organization and jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.

The plaintiffs, who filed the suit at the Jerusalem District Court, are the families of Givat Ze'ev residents Ronen Landau and Yoela Hen, who were killed some four years ago in two separate shooting attacks near their home.

Ronen landau was 17 when hew was killed in an ambush while on a highway traveling home with his father from Jerusalem. Yoela Hen, a mother-of-two who died at the age of 45, was killed while en route to a family wedding.
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Barghouti has been in prison since April 2002, when he was convicted for a succession of terrorist activities against Israeli civilians in his capacity as the West Bank head of the Fatah-affiliated Tanzim militia.

The plaintiffs are represented by attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leiter, founder and direct of the Israel Law Center. The center files similar suits on behalf of terror victims in Israel and abroad.

Darshan-Leitner wrote: "We demand that the court determine a high and painful price tag for damaging the bodies and souls of Israeli residents, in order for the Palestinian side to understand that Jewish lives are not ownerless property.

"We hold significant evidence connecting the Palestinian Authority and its senior officials to the two terror attacks near Givat Ze'ev, as well as many other attacks," the attorney continued. "We have unequivocal evidence proving that Marwan Barghouti personally was responsible for the murder of Ronen Landau and Yoela Hen."

In the suit, the plaintiffs charged that Barghouti personally led, managed and orchestrated terror attacks against Israeli targets through conspiring to carry them out. They claimed that the jailed Palestinian leader did this with the assistance of senior operatives from Tanzim who were responsible for the actual execution of the attacks.

According to the plaintiffs, Barghouti was implementing policy that had actually been formulated by Yasser Arafat, the late PA chairman, before the second intifada erupted in 2000.



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      1.   That`s all the difference 14:01  |  Ivan 24/07/08
      2.   why not? the USA and Europe will pay ... 14:37  |  Sarah 24/07/08
      3.   Sara, Then they shouldn`t fund terrorists 15:35  |  Jake 24/07/08
      4.   Let Barghouti hire Alan Dershowitz 15:52  |  Natallie Durson 24/07/08
      5.   @Jake: if the USA would hold Israel responsible .. 15:52  |  Sarah 24/07/08
      6.   Everyone is funding terrorism! 15:59  |  Joe 24/07/08
      7.   Ivan 16:08  |  RF 24/07/08
      8.   Hey, maybe he was maybe only following orders 16:54  |  John 24/07/08
      9.   Greedy Bastards and Fair Trials... 17:15  |  Ibrahim 24/07/08
      10.   It should work both ways 17:29  |  KEN 24/07/08
      11.   Natalie gets it wrong again 18:03  |  Arie 24/07/08
      12.   John Netherlands-again, no reality in history 18:06  |  Arie 24/07/08
      13.   BTW is it true that the IDF establishment is learning 18:31  |  Andreas 24/07/08
      14.   Keep him in Jail and feed him. LOL 18:47  |  Simo Mohammed 24/07/08
      15.   NOT GOOD ENOUGH Israel should impose sever laws for terrorists. 20:24  |  Richard 24/07/08
      16.   suit 20:43  |  carter 24/07/08
      17.   How about the "kosher" Jewish terror? How 21:10  |  EEE 24/07/08
      18.   Arie - You made a lot of stew from one oyster 21:22  |  Natallie Durson 24/07/08
      19.   hypocrisy - no lawsuits for 5,000 Pals killed by IDF 21:59  |  Orren Merton 24/07/08
      20.   Barghouti the reason Israel needs death penalty 22:56  |  American Jewboy 24/07/08
      21.   Orren Arabs started the wars – all of them until now! 23:00  |  Richard 24/07/08
      22.   are the occupied allowed to sue the occupiers? 23:48  |  question 24/07/08
      23.   The P.A. is a Mafia-ocracy 00:34  |  Jay Colbe 25/07/08
      24.   as well they should Ibrahim as well they should . 00:48  |  Jewish American-USA 25/07/08
      25.   natalie and you should read Dershowitz`s book the Case for 00:50  |  Steve -nyc 25/07/08
      26.   Jew living in their homeland are victims of terror 00:54  |  Great White North 01/10/08
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