JEWISH INSIDER
Supreme Court to hear case on Palestinian Authority’s ‘martyr’ payments
Marc Rod
February 10, 2025

The Supreme Court is set to hear a case in the coming months to decide whether American victims of Palestinian terror attacks can sue the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority for damages based on support for such attacks through the “pay for slay” program that compensates individuals who have carried out attacks as well as their families. The Supreme Court cases — Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization and United States v. Palestine Liberation Organization, which the court will hear jointly — pertain to a decades-long series of litigation efforts by American terror victims and their families to sue the PLO and PA. In one case in 2015, a lower court awarded a group of victims more than $650 million. READ MORE

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