(NBC5-Chicago) Three Islamic charities and a Hamas fundraiser have been ordered to pay $156 million to the parents of a teen shot and killed while waiting for a bus outside Jerusalem. A federal court jury in Chicago awarded $52 million in damages Wednesday to the parents of David Boim, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys tripled those damages. Joyce and Stanley Boim sued over the 1996 death of their son under a U.S. law that allows victims of terrorism abroad to collect damages in American courts from groups that give money to terrorists. The groups involved are the Oak Lawn-based Quranic Literacy Institute, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, and the Islamic Association for Palestine. Fund-raiser Mohammed Salah was also found liable.
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