ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Families of murdered Israeli teens file ‘unprecedented’ lawsuit against Hamas
by Yair Altman
August 30, 2020
The families of three Israeli teenage boys who were abducted and murdered by Hamas terrorists in Judea and Samaria in June 2014, an act that would spark Operation Protective Edge later that summer, filed a lawsuit against the terrorist group on Sunday morning seeking damages worth NIS 520 million ($155 million). According to the families of Naftali Frenkel, Gil-ad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrach, who are represented by attorneys Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Avi Segal, and Avi Gaz from the Shurat Hadin Israeli Law Center, the purpose of the lawsuit is to stop the Palestinian Authority, which controls parts of Judea and Samaria, from transferring money to Gaza-based Hamas. READ MORE