For Immediate Release October 14,
2002
JERUSALEM COURT GRANTS N.I.S. 64 MILLION LIEN AGAINST P.A.
FUNDS TO FAMILY OF RAMALLAH LYNCH VICTIM
Landmark Decision Allows Terror Victims
Preemptive Attachment of Arafat's Frozen Assets
A Jerusalem court has granted a request for a NIS 64 million lien against
assets of the Palestinian Authority which have been frozen by Israel. The
preemptive attachment ordered on behalf of the family of Vadim Novesche, one
of two reserve soldiers who had been unlawful imprisoned and then brutally
beaten to death by Palestinian police in Ramallah, comes almost exactly two
year to the day since the October 2000 murders.
The suit is being represented by Tel-Aviv attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.
Novesche and another soldier mistakenly drove their car into the Palestinian
Authority and were arrested by Ramallah police. The pair were brought to a
local station house where a frenzied gang of police officers began to
savagely attack them with knives and clubs. After killing the two Israelis,
the Palestinian police threw their mangled bodies out the window to a mob
of residents who had been incited by the bloodshed. The frantic crowd
attacked the bodies tearing them apart with their hands.
The lynching of the two unarmed reservist, which had been videotaped by a
news reporter, brought international condemnation of the Palestinian
Authority. Israel retaliated with an air and sea attack on Arafat's police
headquarters.
In its landmark decision the Court granted the plaintiff's request to place
a lien for the full amount of the law suit - - NIS 64 million. The Court
noted the overwhelming amount of evidence, including the confessions of
numerous Palestinian police officers who had been subsequently arrested by
Israel and charged with the murders.
The plaintiffs had argued in their request that by the time they receive a
judgement from the Court, the Palestinian assets might all have disappeared
or the Palestinian Authority might have collapsed. In that instance, it
would be extremely difficulty
to locate any Palestinian funds to execute the judgement against. The
attachment will ensure that at least NIS 64 million will be available when
the Novesche family eventually wins the law suit against the Palestinian
Authority.
"This is the first time that a preemptive attachment of this size has been
granted against frozen Palestinian assets for the victims of Arafat's
terror," noted attorney Darshan-Leitner, "The courts have finally begun to
adopt our demand that the Palestinians themselves be made to compensate the
families for the murders and not the Israeli tax payers. We are determined
to continue suing the Palestinian Authority in ever possible jurisdiction
around the world until they are completely bankrupt."
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