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January 13, 2017       Share:    

Source: http://www.jta.org/2017/01/12/news-opinion/united-states/iran-and-syria-must-pay-178m-to-family-of-jewish-infant-killed-in-hamas-attack-us-court-rules

Iran and Syria Must Pay $178M to Family of Jewish Infant Killed in Hamas Attack, U.S. Court Rules

(JTA) The Washington, D.C., District Court ruled Tuesday that Iran and Syria must pay a total of $178.5 million in damages to the family of an infant with dual American-Israeli citizenship who was killed in a terrorist attack by a member of Hamas, which is financially backed by the two countries. Chaya Zissel Braun was 3 months old when she was thrown from her stroller and killed in October 2014 in a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem. "The criminal regimes in Tehran and Damascus are the biggest state sponsors of terrorism in the world," said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an attorney who heads the Shurat HaDin Israeli Law Center and who represented the family. The case was filed in a U.S. court because the baby, her parents and grandparents all hold American citizenship.

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