After a lengthy trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York held Jordan-based Arab Bank, PLC liable for helping Hamas finance 24 terrorist attacks that injured Americans in Israel between 2001 and 2004.

The terror-financing litigation has been active for more than a decade, but this case is historic because it is the very first such case to ever have a trial.


The jury verdict (read it below) holds Arab Bank liable for some of the most vicious terror acts carried out against civilians traveling on buses in Israel, eating pizza at Sbarro’s, or enjoying coffee with friends when Hamas carried out the attacks.
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Hamas continues to test-fire rockets every few days from Gaza into the Mediterranean after Operation Protective Edge ended, according to senior Israeli Navy Cmdr. Eli Soholitski.

Hamas views the sea as just as a “one big smuggling tunnel,” according to a new report.


It therefore comes as no surprise that Hamas continues to demand a sea port and new airport in Gaza.
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A hooded Hamas terrorist, reminiscent of an anti-Semitic Ku Klux Klan member, recently told throngs in Gaza that his “force was based in one of the houses” there where there “was also a small girl.”


The gun-toting Hamas fighter had his face obscured by a straw mask and wore a Ghillie suit traditionally worn by snipers.

Appearing to cry beneath his outfit, the unnamed member of Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades described how he lost other fighters when the house they were using was attacked.
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