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Official hails court ruling that voids 655 mln USD judgment against PLO, PNA

Xinhua, September 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

A senior Palestinian official on Thursday welcomed a U.S. appeals court's rejection of a 655.5 million U.S. dollar judgment against the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Hanan Ashrawi, a senior PLO member, told Xinhua in a statement that court ruling "shows that neither the PNA nor the PLO have any link to all the lawsuits applied to the court in the U.S."

On Wednesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the judgment by a lower court judge that required the PNA and the PLO to pay 655.5 million dollars in financial compensation to a group of Israeli-American families for their children killed and wounded in suicide bombing attacks in Israel.

"The abolition of all the lawsuits against the PNA and the PLO shows the integrity of the U.S. judicial system," said Ashrawi. Enditem