Saturday, August 23, 2008, Wall Street Journal:

BEIJING - A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court claims that one of China's biggest banks transferred millions of dollars for terrorist groups bent on attacking Israel, ignoring demands by Israeli counterterrorism officials to halt the practice.
The lawsuit, against Bank of China Ltd., was brought on behalf of more than 100 victims of terrorism in Israel and alleges that the money was transferred for the militant groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Iran and Syria, and processed through Bank of China's branches in the U.S. and China Read more

Wednesday, August 6, 2008, Jerusalem Post: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a 2006 decision by the Jerusalem District Court according to which the Palestinian Authority is immune from lawsuits filed by private individuals because it has the elements of a sovereign or quasi-sovereign entity.

In doing so, the court accepted an appeal by the Society of the Eilon Moreh Seminary, whose lawsuit against the PA was rejected two years ago by the Jerusalem court.

Pollard asks TA court to declare State never gave him money

Monday, August 4, 2008, Jerusalem Post: Jonathan Pollard charged Monday that the government was "blatantly lying" in claiming it was providing he and his wife with financial support, and thereby undermining their fight to win his release from prison.

On Monday, his lawyer, Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, filed an action in Tel Aviv District Court asking for a declaratory judgment stating that neither Pollard nor his wife, Esther, have received monetary support from the State of Israel from the time of Pollard's arrest by American authorities up until the present day. Read more

Thursday, July 31, 2008, SunHerald: The Israeli civil rights group, Shurat HaDin, has sent an urgent letter to United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey, warning him that the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and others, have conspired to violate the U.S. Neutrality Act, 18 U.S.C. § 960, in their efforts to organize a boatlift to the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip.

Friday, July 25, 2008, Ha'aretz: The relatives of terror victims yesterday filed a NIS 450 million class-action lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organization and jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti. 

Ronen Landau was 17 when he was killed in a highway ambush while traveling home with his father from Jerusalem. Yoela Hen, a mother-of-two who died at the age of 45, was killed en route to a family wedding.  Read more

Monday, July 14, 2008, LA Times: NEW YORK (AP) _ A group of Americans, Canadians and Israelis who claim Hezbollah rocket attacks injured them and killed relatives have accused two banks of helping finance the terrorist attacks and have sued them for $650 million. The 85 plaintiffs say in court papers that American Express Bank Ltd. of New York and the Lebanese-Canadian Bank SAL of Beirut unlawfully transferred millions of dollars for Hezbollah between 2004 and 2006. Read more

Tuesday, July 8, 2008, National Post: MONTREAL - Four Canadians who say they are still suffering from shock and trauma after being targeted in Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel two years ago are suing the Lebanese-Canadian Bank in Quebec Superior Court.

They are alleging the bank helped fund Hezbollah by letting two of its alleged front organizations perform money transfers prior to and during Lebanon's 33-day war with Israel in 2006. Read more

 

Tuesday, July 1, 2008, Ynet News: Israeli group files petition to revoke press cards form television reporter who aired film of 2000 incident, after investigation proved footage was staged

The High Court of Justice has rejected a petition filed by the Shurat Hadin ("letter of the law") organization, asking to revoke the press credentials given by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) to the French television reporter who covered the killing of Muhammad al-Durrah in the Gaza Strip in September 2000. Read more

 

Friday, June 27, 2008, Jerusalem Post: The government has admitted that it is allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to be transferred to Hamas in Gaza, the watchdog organization Shurat Hadin charged on Thursday.

Organization head Nitzana Darshan-Leitner quoted from a letter she received from the legal adviser of the Prime Minister's Office that said, "The transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip takes place with the knowledge of the government of Israel for diplomatic reasons." Read more

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