Families of Canadian October 7 victims sue Iran, Hamas and Samidoun for $350 million The plaintiffs are suing under Canada's Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and several other statutes

(National Post) The families of two Canadian-Israeli women killed in the October 7 attack on Israel are suing a wide range of organizations, arguing they’re liable for $350 million for the death of their family members.

Among them is Samidoun, a Vancouver-based activist organization that organizes anti-Israel protests that have praised Hamas’s attack and that agitates on behalf of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, some of whom are members of terrorist groups.

The lawsuit also names Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, two of the organizations behind the October 7 attacks, Fatah, the political party of Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the states of Syria and Iran, among multiple other organizations.

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