COURT: PA, TERRORISTS LIABLE FOR NIS 62 MILLION FOR 2001 MURDER OF 3 ISRAELIS NOVEMBER 19, 2017 10:44 Three Israelis were killed in the shooting attack, which took place during the bloody Second Intifada. The Jerusalem District Court has held the Palestinian Authority and several Palestinian terrorists liable for NIS 62 million in civil wrongful death damages for murdering three Israelis in a shooting attack on Route 443 on August 25, 2001.
The court specifically said that the PA was equally responsible along with the terrorists both due to the connection between the terrorists and the PA and because the PA solicited and aided the cell in perpetrating the attack.
Though the decision was handed down Friday, the court spokesman's office only announced it Sunday.
In August 2001, the Second Intifada was already in full swing and portions of the PA security forces took part in attacks against Israelis.
There were three murdered Israelis in the attack: Sharon Ben-Shalom, Yavin Ben-Shalom and Doron Savri.
Two children of the Ben-Shalom's, Efrat and Shahar, survived as a result of their mother Sharon using her body to shield them from the bullets.
An earlier ruling by Judge Moshe Drori in September 2014 said that the PA and the several terrorists could be held liable, but had not yet set the damages amount.
There are currently several other parallel civil damages cases against the PA ongoing in Israeli courts, but it is unclear how the plaintiffs will be able to go about collecting damages and if the Israeli government will try to cooperate with them or stay out of the issue to avoid a diplomatic standoff.
Meir Indor of the ALMAGOR victims group which was involved in the case said, "While the Palestinian Authority continues to wash its hands clean before the cultured-Western world, it supports terrorists at every stage of the process."
"Starting from incitement to terror to financing to equipping for terror acts... accompanying terrorists in jail through the minister or office for prisoners who transfers payments to terrorists and their families," Indor said that the PA has played a double game - talking peace while aiding terror.
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