A federal judge in Brooklyn ordered a trial for damages today against Arab Bank, PLC for families of victims in a Hamas terrorist financing case.

On September 22 this year, a U.S. District Court jury held Jordan-based Arab Bank, PLC liable for helping Hamas finance terror attacks against Americans in Israel.


Judge Brian M. Cogan ordered that the damages trial be held on May 18, 2015 (read the order below).
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The Hamas terrorist group’s Turkey branch, headed by Salah al-Arouri, plans terror attacks in Israel without regard for ramifications of what Hamas’s leadership in Gaza and elsewhere thinks, according to a new report.


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Hamas planned to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians on public transit systems and a sports stadium in Jerusalem, according to Israel’s Shin Bet security service. More than 30 suspects from the West Bank were arrested in September, according to newly disclosed information.


The terror operations were planned by Hamas’s Turkey-based military figurehead Salah Arouri (inset), a senior member of the terrorist group close to the groups’s leader Khaled Mashal. (more…)

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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