Victims Against Arafat

Victims Against Arafat

Israel National News

2001-11-26

Relatives of victims of Palestinian terrorism throughout the past two decades have arrived in Belgium to file suit against Yasser Arafat for his crimes against humanity. The suit is premised on a Belgian law from 1993 that permits international figures to be charged with such crimes. The delegation of eight, representing over 30 relatives in Israel and elsewhere, is sponsored by Israel’s Terror Victims Association and is represented by Atty. Yaakov Rubin. Rubin will file the suit tomorrow at 11 AM at the Palais de Justice, where a similar suit against Prime Minister Sharon is underway pertaining to the Sabra and Shatila massacres in 1982 by Christian Phalangists.

It should be noted that several Belgium victims of PLO terrorism have also joined the suit. These include Oscar Gudlovitch, who was badly wounded in a PLO attack on a Brussels synagogue in 1982. Atty. Rubin emphasized the importance of this development in that it will not be able to be claimed – as Sharon plans to claim in his own defense – that the suit is not connected to Belgian citizens. Among the eight family members in Brussels are Irina Rodin, whose daughter Simona was murdered in the Dolphinarium massacre; Chana Maoz, whose daughter Tehilla was killed in the Sbarro pizzeria attack; Aryeh Boznach, father of one of the children killed in the Maalot school massacre in 1974; and Frieda Sweri, whose son, daughter, and son-in-law were killed on the Modiin road a few months ago.