Overview

• The Anti-Defamation League filed the case Thursday in federal court in Washington on behalf of more than 140 Americans seeking at least $7 billion in damages.
• The suit names Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the PFLP, the DFLP, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement and the Popular Resistance Committees, and it also targets Iran, Syria and North Korea.
• The complaint alleges the state sponsors provided funding, weapons and training that enabled the Oct. 7, 2023 assault that killed about 1,200 people.
• The filing invokes two U.S. laws that allow civil remedies for international terrorism and cites findings from the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry.
• ADL partnered with Crowell & Moring, and successful plaintiffs could seek payments from a congressional victims fund, while earlier related suits have not drawn formal responses from the accused states.