West Bank – The Palestinians don’t have the money to compensate families of terror victims as ruled by a jury in New York earlier this week, PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi said Tuesday.
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Ashrawi’s announcement came in response to the jury’s verdict, which found the PLO and the Palestinian Authority liable for supporting terrorist attacks in Israel more than a decade ago.
The jury in Manhattan federal court awarded $218.5 million in damages to 10 American families. The sum is expected to rise to $655.5 million under a 1992 US anti-terrorism law.
“The PLO and the Palestinian Authority don’t have the money to pay compensation to these families,” Ashrawi told reporters in Ramallah.
She pointed out that the PA has been facing a severe financial crisis that has been aggravated by Israel’s decision to withhold tax revenues belonging to the Palestinians.
“All the money in the world won’t be sufficient to compensate the Palestinians for what they have been subjected to as a result of the Israeli occupation,” Ashrawi said.
She said that the Palestinians would appeal the verdict. She also claimed that many of the witnesses who appeared before the Manhattan court were “soldiers in the occupation army who stole documents from the Mukata (presidential compound in Ramallah).”
Ashrawi said that the testimonies of the soldiers should be dismissed “because they had participated in occupying Palestinian territories.” She denied any link between the terrorist attacks and the PLO and PA.
Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post
Why can’t the Palestinian Authority raise the funds from the same sponsors who finance their terrorist activities at home and abroad!
Maybe they are withholding money because you use it to kill people.
Easy. Deduct the money from what Israel is holding for the PA. Keep the lawsuits coming. The subhuman creatures that call themselves Palestinians don’t deserve a dime, not even a morsel of food. Let them hunt 4-legged animals, not slaughter Israelis.
Israel should give the families the 100 million in tax revenues.
Israel should take the tax money it is collecting for the Palestinians and hand it over to the victims who won the case.
Guess the bank the least money is the. “West bank”
Did anyone expect these animals to pay? Way back in the 1980’s, Al Sharpton accused prosecutor Steven Pagones of taking part in the gang rape of Tawana Brawley, which of course was a hoax. Pagones sued Sharpie for libel and won a judgment, which Sharpie has never paid.