The relatives of over 100 American victims of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on October 7 last year have sued Iran, Syria, and North Korea in a federal court in the US capital Washington, reports CNN.
It is the American-Jewish organization Anti-Defamation League that is behind the lawsuit. It is demanding compensation of approximately 40 billion Swedish kronor.
It is unlikely that the accused countries would comply with a guilty verdict. But the hope is to get money from a special fund for victims of state-sponsored terrorism established by the US Congress in 2015.
The plaintiffs accuse the three countries of supporting Hamas with, among other things, weapons and training, and claim in the lawsuit that Hamas could not have carried out the attacks on October 7 without support from the three countries.
