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| Israeli Court: PA Terrorist Must Pay $15 Million for Murders in Samaria |
| 2009-03-29 |
| (IsraelNN.com) An Israeli court has ordered a Palestinian Authority terrorist to pay NIS 60 million ($15 million) to the surviving relatives of terror victims Rachel Shabu and three of her children who were killed in an attack in the community of Itamar in Samaria in 2002. The ruling follows several other court decisions in the United States and Israel the past year, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars and shekels in damages against the PA, Hamas and Iran. Jerusalem District Court Judge Rafi Carmel ruled that the Itamar attack, organized by Kamil Sayid Hassan Khanish, is one of many that "bring about tragic results that justify compensation." Khanish, who was head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Samaria, was sentenced in 2005 to nine terms of life imprisonment for several attacks. He was also convicted for organizing a suicide bombing attack in Netanya in May 2002, which left three Israelis dead and 59 others wounded. One month after the Netanya bombing, he arranged the attack in Itamar, where an armed terrorist burst into the Shabu family home and opened fire in all directions, killing the mother and three of her children: 15-year-old Neria, 12-year-old Tzvi and five-year-old Avishai. Two other children were wounded. A community first response team member also was killed by the terrorist. The family sued Khanish and Mohammed Dahlan, senior aide to former Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat and currently a senior aide to PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas. Both men were responsible for ordering hundreds of terrorist attacks throughout Israel. Khanish also was responsible for the 2002 suicide bombing at the Eshel Hotel in Ariel, in Samaria, where 10 people were wounded, and two attacks on IDF posts. Two soldiers were killed in 2003 at an IDF outpost in Samaria, and two more were murdered in an infiltration at a Golani training base two months later. Khanish was arrested in 2003 during a counterterrorist action in Shechem, located near Itamar. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Failure to pay should result in the confiscation of what the Palestinians hold most dear - territory. They should lose 40 hectares (about a hundred acres) for each million dollars. Pretty soon Israel will own all of the West Bank and Gaza, legally. Evict the "squatters", and secure the borders. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-03-29 12:57 |
| #1 They thought they've a monopoly on lawfare? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-29 03:49 |