by Wallace White at Daily Caller
A Palestinian-American billionaire helped lay the groundwork for the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks, families of American Oct. 7 massacre victims alleged in a new lawsuit released Monday.
The lawsuit targets Bashar Masri, a Palestinian-American billionaire who allegedly used his Gaza-based companies to quietly aid Hamas in building key infrastructure that would be used in the conflict, including tunnels, buildings for high-level meetings and even power generation. Some of the construction was done using U.S. taxpayer funds, according to the lawsuit, which pointed to funds doled out by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
“By actively working with Hamas to build and maintain its attack tunnel infrastructure while simultaneously advancing Hamas’s campaign of deception, Defendants aided and abetted and conspired with Hamas, and the October 7 Attack and the deaths of soldiers and civilians thereafter were a foreseeable consequence of Defendants’ collaboration with Hamas,” the lawsuit reads. “Plaintiffs—American victims of the October 7 Attack and its aftermath, and their family members and their estates—therefore bring this action under the Anti-Terrorism Act (“ATA”) as amended by the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (“JASTA”).” (RELATED: ‘Hamas Out’: Gazans Reportedly Protest Hamas In Largest Demonstration Since War Began)
The billionaire has rejected the allegations,…
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