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The US appeals court revives a $1 billion lawsuit against more than 30 Israel supporters including casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Oracle founder billionaire Larry EllisonLarry Ellison, Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi for support of Israeli settlements and alleged of conspiring to expel Palestinians out of the occupied territories and of war crimes, a U.S. appeals court ruled.
In 2016 US court dismissed a lawsuit by Palestinians for raising what judge Karen LeCraft Henderson said were political questions for which the court had no authority. The question included who has sovereignty over East Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza and whether war crimes, including genocide, were being committed there.
The plaintiffs, including Palestinian village council, 18 Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans claim the banks, Adelson and others plotted to funnel millions of dollars to Israeli settlements, which spent the money to kill Palestinians and confiscate their property.
The unanimous ruling Tuesday by a three-judge panel, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit said the federal district judge wrongly concluded that all claims raised political questions that could not be decided in American courts. |