The relatives of 14 Palestinian killed in July 2002 when Israel killed a senior Hamas figure in Gaza, have filed a civil lawsuit in the US against former Director of General Security Service, Avi Dichter. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has condemned the lawsuit.
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