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U.S. court upholds $156 million judgment against Palestinian charities
By The Associated Press
Tags: Israel News, Hamas, U.S. 

A federal appeals court has upheld a $156 million judgment against three Palestinian charities accused of bankrolling terrorism. But it has dropped the lone individual from the long-running civil suit.

The opinion was filed over the killing by Hamas terrorists of American-born student David Boim. It says donors to charities are liable if those charities engage in terrorist acts.

But the court is dropping donor Muhammad Salah from the case. It says he was in jail when an anti-terrorism charity law was passed so he could not have violated it.
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Boim was fatally shot in May 1996 while standing at a bus stop in a West Bank town near Jerusalem.

Last week, the U.S. government won a terrorism conviction against what had been the country's largest Muslim charity and five of its leaders for funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Holy Land became the government's signature victory in the tough-to-convict pursuit of terrorism financing cases. Lengthy prison sentences may await Holy Land's five convicted leaders, and some could be locked away for life.

Holy Land has been suspected since the 1990s of bankrolling social programs run by Hamas, which the U.S. designated a terrorist organization in 1995. Prosecutors accused Holy Land of routing more than $12 million overseas to help Hamas spread its ideology and boost its ranks.

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