The Palestinian Authority reportedly has settled a lawsuit over the murder of two U.S. citizens living in Israel.
Court papers indicating that a settlement agreement was filed Feb. 14 in a Rhode Island District Court, but no details were provided, the Associated Press reported.
A $116 million default judgment awarded by the Rhode Island court in 2004 was vacated by the agreement, according to the papers, AP reported. The agreement also lifts a freeze on P.A. assets in the United States.
The Rhode Island court had awarded the judgment to the family of terror victims Yaron and Efrat Ungar, U.S. citizens killed in 1996 when they were attacked in their car by Palestinian terrorists as they drove home from a wedding near Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem. Their infant son survived the attack.
Lawyers for the Ungar family and the Palestinian Authority would not comment to AP. — jta