Palestinian leaders must pay more than $232 million for the killing of two West Bank Jewish settlers, a U.S. judge ruled. A federal magistrate in Rhode Island ruled this week that the PLO and Palestinian Authority provided safe haven to a Hamas gunman in the 1996 drive-by shooting of Yaron Ungar, a U.S. citizen, and his Israeli wife Efrat, The Associated Press reported.
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