20, 2002

Israeli family sues EU for Palestinian attack

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

AN Israeli family filed a 100 million shekel (20.7 million dollars) lawsuit against the European Union on Monday, alleging that EU grants to the Palestinian
Authority indirectly benefited gunmen who carried out a deadly shooting attack on the Bloomberg family in August. The family’s lawyer, Nitsana
Darshan-Leitner
, said the European
Union was reckless in providing financial aid to the Palestinian Authority.

David Irving comments:

SO, will Palestinian victims now be able to sue the US taxpayers for providing the tank shells and Apache helicopter gunships? Which brings up other locations to mind: Dresden,
Hiroshima, Coventry…?

The prospects for the legal profession are endless.She alleged that some of the EU money was being redirected by the Palestinian
Authority to Palestinian militant groups, such as the one that carried out the attack on the British-born Bloomberg family, and that the EU was aware of the practice.

A European Commission official said the
EU is investigating claims by Israel that the Palestinian Authority has used member states’ money to carry out attacks against
Israelis. “We have yet to receive any evidence that the Palestinian Authority has misused our funds to fund terrorist activities.

The Commission did say that they were treating these allegations made by the Israeli government very seriously and that it awaits any evidence to show that those funds have been misused,” said
David Kriss, a spokesman for the
European Commission in Israel.

Techiya Blumberg, 35, was five months pregnant when she was killed in a
Palestinian drive-by shooting in the West
Bank

on August 5. Her husband, Steven
Blumberg
, and 14-year-old daughter were also injured in the attack and remain paralyzed, Darshan-Leitner said in a statement.

Israeli security forces arrested two members of the Palestinian security forces last year and accused them of having participated in the attack on the Blumbergs.

“Without the EU’s reckless provision of financing to the
Palestinians, hundreds of Israeli terror victims would still be alive and thousands of others would never have had to suffer their tragic injuries,” Darshan-Leitner said.
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