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Leading Palestinian-American businessman aided Hamas, lawsuit by Oct. 7 victims claims
A US lawsuit filed on Monday by victims of the October 7 attack claimed that a prominent Palestinian-American businessman, Bashar Masri, aided Hamas through business projects in the Gaza Strip.
The lawsuit argued that Hamas deceived Israel ahead of the invasion by feigning an interest in developing Gaza, and that Masri and his companies were “an integral part of that grand deception.”
“They owned and operated flagship properties in Gaza that they knowingly and deliberately integrated into Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure and that were crucial elements in Hamas’s attack plan on October 7,” the lawsuit said.
The plaintiffs were around 200 American victims of the October 7 attack and their family members, including the families of slain hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Itay Chen, and Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the US, whose son was killed in Gaza in November 2023.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/leading-palestinian-american-businessman-aided-hamas-lawsuit-claims/
The lawsuit argued that Hamas deceived Israel ahead of the invasion by feigning an interest in developing Gaza, and that Masri and his companies were “an integral part of that grand deception.”
“They owned and operated flagship properties in Gaza that they knowingly and deliberately integrated into Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure and that were crucial elements in Hamas’s attack plan on October 7,” the lawsuit said.
The plaintiffs were around 200 American victims of the October 7 attack and their family members, including the families of slain hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Itay Chen, and Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the US, whose son was killed in Gaza in November 2023.
An American billionaire RE developer using humanitarian aid funds to allegedly facilitate and build the infrastructure for actually committing war crimes in Gaza , and not a peep about it in the media.
I wonder why.