The suit claims that "the state of Israel and its allies have engaged in genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, extra judicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, wrongful death, battery, assault, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence per se, trespass, and conversion during the massacres of Sabra and Shatila refugee camps from Sept. 16-18, 1982 until what is occurring to the present day."
Cohen, head of Solidarity’s team of lawyers, said the state of Israel has continued its assault against the Palestinian people and is the leading "sponsor of terrorism" in the world today.
In addition, he added, "the plaintiffs have suffered significant losses of life (of loved ones), limb, family, or property as a result of the continuing illegal acts of Israel and its armed forces or settler populations in the Occupied Territories, and in Sabra-Shatila twenty years earlier."
Cohen, who filed the a 140-page complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, said the significance of the lawsuit "is that it challenges the notion that the Western world always lives by the rule of law even while it has remained silent regarding the atrocities against the Palestinians."
Cohen, head of Solidarity’s team of lawyers, said the state of Israel has continued its assault against the Palestinian people and is the leading "sponsor of terrorism" in the world today.
In addition, he added, "the plaintiffs have suffered significant losses of life (of loved ones), limb, family, or property as a result of the continuing illegal acts of Israel and its armed forces or settler populations in the Occupied Territories, and in Sabra-Shatila twenty years earlier."
Cohen, who filed the a 140-page complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, said the significance of the lawsuit "is that it challenges the notion that the Western world always lives by the rule of law even while it has remained silent regarding the atrocities against the Palestinians."