(AP/Washington Post) A federal judge in Providence, R.I., ordered the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, to pay $116 million in damages for the deaths of an American citizen and his Israeli wife in a drive-by shooting in 1996 near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh. Family members of Yaron Ungar sued in March 2000 under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1991 allowing relatives of American victims of overseas terrorism to seek damages in U.S. courts. U.S. District Judge Ronald Lagueux awarded $30.5 million each to the Ungars' children and $15 million each to Yaron Ungar's parents. The lawsuit also names the PLO and the PA as defendants for allegedly providing a haven and operational base for Hamas, which is responsible for many of the suicide bombings in Israel.
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