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U.S. Court Freezes Palestinian Government Assets


(Reuters) The U.S. District Court in Rhode Island has frozen all U.S.-based assets of the Palestinian Authority after the Palestinian government failed to pay $116 million in damages imposed by the court last year, according to legal documents obtained on Tuesday. After a five-year legal battle, the court last year ordered the PA to pay the damages for the 1996 shooting deaths of American Yaron Ungar and his wife Efrat in Israel. When the Palestinian government did not pay, the lawyer for Ungar's estate, David Strachman, petitioned the court to block the assets. The court granted a temporary freeze on the assets of the PA, the PLO, and related officials and entities in April, and then blocked the funds indefinitely in May.
2005-08-31 00:00:00
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