Families of American Oct. 7 Hamas attack victims sue Iran for ‘crucial role’ in supporting massacre

The families of American victims of Hamas' deadly attack connected Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, person accused Iran successful a suit of supporting the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust portion accusing the Islamic Republic of being straight progressive successful the battle that killed 1,200 people. 

The lawsuit, filed successful a national tribunal successful Washington D.C., connected behalf of 250 families and survivors of the attack, alleges Iran funded, planned and coordinated the onslaught with Hamas. Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are named successful the complaint. 

Additionally, Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) are besides named successful the lawsuit. The suit details Iran's clasp of assorted terror groups dedicated to the demolition of Israel. 

"The atrocities committed by Hamas and its co-conspirators connected October 7, 2023, each operating with what our clients judge to beryllium some tactical and fiscal enactment from Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, were acts that cannot beryllium permitted to stand," said anti-terrorism lawyer John Eubanks, 1 of respective salient lawyers representing the plaintiffs. "We number it a privilege to beryllium trusted by the families we correspond to question accountability and justness connected their behalf wrong the U.S. judicial system."

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Students and assemblage members sang songs and shared stories astatine the vigil for Israel aft the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre.    (Fox News Digital)

The suit stems from concealed documents uncovered successful Gaza that attorneys said amusement the IRGC funneled millions of dollars to Hamas. The suit seeks compensatory damages nether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Anti-Terrorism Act. 

Gary Osen, 1 of the lawyers progressive successful the lawsuit and who has besides represented victims of Nazi warfare crimes, told Fox News Digital that the suit "provides hard grounds of Iran’s important relation successful financing and readying the October 7 attack. But this lawsuit is lone a archetypal measurement successful a overmuch larger effort to clasp each those who aided and abetted Hamas publically accountable."

"We mean to travel the grounds wherever other it leads," helium added. 

The ailment includes a papers from a 2022 gathering of elder Hamas members Yahya Sinwar, Khalil al-Hayya and others hashing retired a communal defence statement betwixt Hamas and different Iran-backed panic groups should a warfare interruption out. 

A presumption of a poster successful Iranian superior Tehran, featuring deceased Hamas main Yahya Sinwar connected August 13, 2024. Families of American victims of the Oct. 7 onslaught are suing Iran implicit its relation successful the panic attack.  (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Also included is simply a insubstantial astir a determination by Hamas to petition Iran nonstop Hamas $7 cardinal monthly "to mobilize and prepare" for "confrontations" with Israel. Other documents uncover a database of clandestine payments from the IRGC to Sinwar’s idiosyncratic discretionary money for panic activities from 2014 to 2020.

In 1 document, Hamas governmental main Ismail Haniyeh suggested to Sinwar that the radical could fortify ties with Iran and Hezbollah by restoring relations with Syria, amid its civilian war, which it did successful 2022.

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Gunmen from the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the subject helping of Hamas, during an anti-Israel subject march successful Gaza City, Gaza Strip.  (Yousef Masoud/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

One memo from apical Hamas person Marwan Issa elaborate the group's advancement successful strengthening ties with different Iranian proxies. 

"It has been concluded that a wide connection indispensable beryllium conveyed to A-Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah that if Iran oregon the absorption successful Lebanon [Hezbollah] would look a warfare successful the future, we, the Hamas Movement and the Al-Qassam (brigades), are afloat prepared to participate," helium wrote, according ot the lawsuit. 

The Al-Quassam Brigades is the subject helping of Hamas. Among the oddities presented successful the documents, are that the brigades maintained a "Human Resources" section that, among different things, dispensed scholarships for its operatives to get precocious degrees successful Iran.

In summation to the much than 40 Americans, including children, who were killed connected Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas besides took astir 250 radical hostage, including 12 Americans. The suit besides includes Americans killed portion warring for the Israel Defense Forces successful Hamas-controlled Gaza and bluish Israel, which has been repeatedly attacked by rocket occurrence by Hezbollah, different Iranian proxy group. 

Iranians pain an Israeli emblem during a rally marking Quds Day and the ceremonial of members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who were killed successful a suspected Israeli airstrike connected the Iranian embassy analyzable successful the Syrian superior Damascus, successful Tehran, Iran, April 5, 2024.  (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)

"Our extremity is to make documentation, to show with coagulated evidence, including Hamas' ain documents, however Iran was straight progressive successful financing and readying the onslaught connected October 7," said Naomi Weiser, whose lad Roey was killed defending Israel's borderline obstruction with Gaza. "It was a conscious prime of Iran to acceptable occurrence to the Middle East and termination our son. This suit is 1 of the important ways successful which we tin bring the facts to airy and assistance the nationalist recognize what happened."

In October, Sinwar, who was Hamas' apical person and believed to beryllium the mastermind down Oct. 7, was killed by Israeli forces successful Gaza. 

Among the plaintiffs is Yechiel Leiter, the begetter of Moshe Leiter, who was killed successful November 2023 during a conflict successful Gaza. The elder Leiter was tapped past week by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to service arsenic Israel's ambassador to the United States.  

Yahya Sinwar, violent leader, speaks astatine a podium portion astatine a rally. Israel connected Thursday said Sinwar was killed by its forces successful Gaza.  (Mohammed Talatene/picture confederation via Getty Images)

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"We judge successful holding those liable accountable, and anticipation that our efforts volition lend to the public's knowing of what happened connected October 7," Batya Sprei, who mislaid her member David to the onslaught astatine the Nova euphony festival, said successful a statement. "The onslaught was not a spontaneous event, and Hamas did not enactment alone. As Hamas' ain documents marque clear, Iran helped concern and program the attack. Hamas lit the match, but Iran provided the fuel."

Israel precocious launched a retaliatory airstrike against Iran successful October aft Tehran launched its ain onslaught weeks earlier aimed astatine the Jewish state. Israel's onslaught degraded portion of Iran's atomic program, Netanyahu said.