US EditionLawsuit targets militant groups as complicit in deaths of US citizens in Hamas
The lawsuit includes over 140 plaintiffs seeking compensation under U.S. law for deaths and injuries caused by terrorism in the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, filed in federal court.
- Thursday, lawyers for U.S. victims filed a federal lawsuit in Washington alleging groups aided the Oct. 7 attack; over 140 plaintiffs seek at least 7 billion dollars.
- The suit traces its claims to the 2023 assault when Hamas-led militants stormed southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people; U.S. federal law allows liability for states deemed sponsors of terrorism.
- Among defendants, the lawsuit lists Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, citing the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry and Justice Department charges against Yahya Sinwar last year.
- The ADL said the plaintiffs are U.S. citizens who died or were wounded or their American family members, while Iran, Syria and North Korea have not formally responded to a similar 2024 lawsuit.
- The wider war has left over 65,000 Palestinians dead, with women and children nearly half, and 8 hostages remain in Gaza, around 20 believed alive.
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Families of Oct. 7 victims sue Hamas and other terrorist groups
A group of American victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack is suing several Gaza-based terrorist groups who carried it out and the state actors who support them. The Anti-Defamation League and Crowell & Moring filed the federal lawsuit…
US victims of October 7 attacks file a new lawsuit against Hamas, Syria, Iran and North Korea
A prominent Jewish advocacy group filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Hamas and other armed groups, as well as Iran, Syria and North Korea, seeking billions in damages over the October 7 attacks in Israel.
American victims of October 7 sue Hamas, Iran for billions of dollars
The Anti-Defamation League has filed a federal suit against Hamas, half a dozen other terrorist groups and their alleged state sponsors on behalf of over 140 U.S. citizens who were wounded, killed or lost loved ones that day: 'The victims of the October 7 massacre deserve justice'
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