More than 200 U.S. citizens, family members, and estates of deceased U.S. citizens are asking the Supreme Court to revive their lawsuit against a foreign bank for allegedly processing hundreds of transfers moving millions of dollars for terrorist group Hamas’s principal European fundraiser, Interpal, over a decade. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the petitioners in the case known as Weiss v. National Westminster Bank Plc, court file 21-381. Among those senators are Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). The petitioners were injured or killed in terrorist attacks committed by Hamas in Israel during the Second Intifada. The Second Intifada, a period of intense Palestinian terrorist violence, began in September 2000, and “was a defining event in Israel’s history, akin to the [Israeli] War of Independence and the Six-Day and Yom Kippur wars,” …
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