U.S. Ruling Raises Ire of Islamic Jihad
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JERUSALEM — The militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad called on its members Thursday to attack Israeli soldiers and settlers in response to a U.S. court decision on a 1995 bombing by the group.
A U.S. judge ordered Iran on Wednesday to pay more than $247 million to the family of an American student killed in the bombing, ruling that Tehran financed the Islamic Jihad guerrillas who carried out the attack.
“This strange verdict is an expression of the rudeness of the American administration and an indicator of the arrogance of American policy in the world,” the group said in a leaflet. “We call on our Palestinian people to escalate the armed struggle against occupation forces and . . . Zionist settlers.”
Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old from New Jersey, was killed when a suicide bomber struck an Israeli bus in the Palestinian-run Gaza Strip.
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