A landmark legal case tied to the 1996 murder of American teenager David Boim — the first US citizen killed by Hamas terrorists — could become a major turning point in efforts to block alleged Hamas-linked fundraising operations inside the United States.
Boim’s parents won a $156 million judgment in 2004 against the Islamic Association for Palestine and the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development after a federal court found the groups acted as fundraising fronts for Hamas.
According to court filings, both organizations later shut down and reappeared under different structures and names, leading to decades of additional legal battles.
The current focus of the case is on the group American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), which the lawsuit argues shares personnel, infrastructure, and ideological continuity with earlier Hamas-linked organizations.
