ארכיון: קורבנות טרור תובעים את "בנק אוף צ'יינה" (כתבה של NTD)

And moving on to our China News segment, a group of Israelis who were attacked by terror groups claim the Bank of China facilitated the attacks by not preventing the transfer of funds. Our Israeli team explains. Dana Galkovich was only 22 years old when she was killed in a barrage of rockets fired by the Hamas terrorist group in 2005. And now her father, Nathan, is one of 100 Israeli terror victims who are suing the Bank of China for not preventing money that was transferred to the Hamas. We are not running this process because of the money but because of the... to stop the killings and basically to respect the human rights everywhere, not only in Israel. The plaintiffs are represented by three attorneys. One of them is Nitzana Darshan-Letner, who explains the case to us. An official, a high-ranking official of the Hamas had a bank account in the Bank of China and he was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from the headquarters of Hamas in Syria. He was using the money to finance the Hamas, to help them. Darshan-Letner points out that Israeli officials have contacted the Chinese bank and asked them to terminate the Hamas account. Bank of China is acting based on what the government is telling him, what the central bank is instructing him. And if those, both Central Bank of China or the Chinese government would have wanted to stop this activity, they could have done so. Darshan-Letner is definitely optimistic about winning the case. I hope and I would say even I believe that as soon as the Bank of China will receive the papers of the lawsuit, they will immediately terminate the bank account of this Hamas official and from now on they will be very careful. Natan says now he simply wants to talk about human rights and to raise awareness about the plight of victims. I am against the Bank of China and I want more and more people to know what's going on. It's my small step into this direction.