A Jerusalem court has granted a request for a 64-million shekel lien against assets of the Palestinian Authority that Israel has already frozen. The order was granted on behalf of the family of Vadim Norzitch, one of two reserve soldiers who were brutally beaten to death by PA police officers in Ramallah two years ago this month.
After Norzitch and another soldier mistakenly into Ramallah, they were arrested by PA para-military police and brought to a local station house. A frenzied gang of police officers then began to savagely attack them with knives and clubs. After killing the two Israelis, the murderers threw their mangled bodies out the window to a mob of Arabs, who frantically tore the bodies apart with their hands. The cruel lynching was partially videotaped by a news reporter, and it brought international condemnation of the Palestinian Authority. The Court, noting the overwhelming amount of evidence, including the confessions of numerous Palestinian police officers, ordered a lien placed on the full amount of the lawsuit.
“This is the first time that a preemptive attachment of this size has been granted against frozen Palestinian assets for the victims of Arafat’s terror,” noted Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, representing the Norzitch family. “The courts have finally begun to adopt our demand that the Palestinians themselves be made to compensate the families for the murders and not the Israeli taxpayers. We are determined to continue suing the PA... until they are completely bankrupt.”
Darshan-Leitner, commenting on the psychological aspects of suing the PA, told Arutz-7's Yosef Zalmanson: "We have found that tragedy effects every family in a different way. Some really want to sue, some feel it is blood money. Most are very overcome with grief, but after months and months they come forward... Some want to talk with the media, some shun it; some thank us, some curse us, and many trade off blessing and cursing us. After all, we are the ones who remind them of what happened, bother them with documents, reports and decisions, bring them to court, ask them horrible probing questions and make them recall this very personal tragedy in public trials before judges who are strangers. It is very very emotional..."
After Norzitch and another soldier mistakenly into Ramallah, they were arrested by PA para-military police and brought to a local station house. A frenzied gang of police officers then began to savagely attack them with knives and clubs. After killing the two Israelis, the murderers threw their mangled bodies out the window to a mob of Arabs, who frantically tore the bodies apart with their hands. The cruel lynching was partially videotaped by a news reporter, and it brought international condemnation of the Palestinian Authority. The Court, noting the overwhelming amount of evidence, including the confessions of numerous Palestinian police officers, ordered a lien placed on the full amount of the lawsuit.
“This is the first time that a preemptive attachment of this size has been granted against frozen Palestinian assets for the victims of Arafat’s terror,” noted Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, representing the Norzitch family. “The courts have finally begun to adopt our demand that the Palestinians themselves be made to compensate the families for the murders and not the Israeli taxpayers. We are determined to continue suing the PA... until they are completely bankrupt.”
Darshan-Leitner, commenting on the psychological aspects of suing the PA, told Arutz-7's Yosef Zalmanson: "We have found that tragedy effects every family in a different way. Some really want to sue, some feel it is blood money. Most are very overcome with grief, but after months and months they come forward... Some want to talk with the media, some shun it; some thank us, some curse us, and many trade off blessing and cursing us. After all, we are the ones who remind them of what happened, bother them with documents, reports and decisions, bring them to court, ask them horrible probing questions and make them recall this very personal tragedy in public trials before judges who are strangers. It is very very emotional..."