US jury: Palestinian authorities liable for Israeli terror attacks, $218.5M in damages awarded

U.S. jury decides Palestinian authorities liable for Israeli terror attacks, award $218.5M in damages: http://t.co/SgzGeiwGIq
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 23, 2015

NEW YORK (AP) – The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority were the catalysts for a series of terrorist attacks in the early 2000s in Israel that killed or wounded several Americans, a U.S. jury found Monday at a high-stakes civil trial.

In finding the Palestinian authorities liable in the attacks, jurors awarded the victims $218.5 million in damages for the bloodshed. The U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act could allow for that to be tripled.

The case in Manhattan and another in Brooklyn have been viewed as the most notable attempts by American victims of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to use U.S. courts to seek damages that could reach into the billions of dollars.

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NYT adds:

The damages are to be $655.5 million, under a special terrorism law that provides for tripling the $218.5 million awarded by the jury in Federal District Court.