(Reuters) The family of an American singer who was shot dead in an attack on a banquet hall in Israel last year filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Thursday against Yasser Arafat and the PLO. The suit, brought under U.S. anti-terrorism laws, was filed in Manhattan federal court and seeks $500 million in compensatory damages and unspecified punitive damages. The plaintiffs include the wife and children of Aharon Ellis, who had been performing at a Bat Mitzvah celebration in Hadera, Israel, on January 17, 2002, when a member of the PLO fired into the banquet hall with a machine gun in an attack authorized and planned by the defendants. Six people including Ellis, 31, were killed in the attack and more than 30 were wounded.
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