Victims of Palestinian terror attacks filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for providing funds of almost half a billion dollars in US taxpayer funds to the Palestinian Authority, which funds “pay to slay” payments, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court on Tuesday by Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas) and US victims of Palestinian terror attacks, states that the Biden administration violated federal law by resuming US aid to the PA. US funds to the PA were frozen by the Trump administration due to its funding of pay-to-slay payments.

The 2018 Taylor Force Act bans all US aid to the PA as long as it continues to fund terrorists.

Force’s family is named as a plaintiff in the suit, as well as Jackson and Sarri Singer, who are survivors of a Palestinian suicide bombing in 2003.

“I am committed to doing everything in my power to get the accountability these families so richly deserve as we work to make sure U.S. taxpayer-funded terrorism never happens again,” Jackson told the Free Beacon. “President Trump showed tremendous leadership when he signed the Taylor Force Act into law and ended taxpayer support for the Palestinian Authority’s terrorist activities. Joe Biden’s decision to reverse course knowing full well blood is on his hands as a result is unconscionable.”

Stuart and Robbi Force, Taylor’s parents, said in a statement that President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are “dishonoring the memory and legacy of a good man, and ignoring the citizens of the United States who understand that taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund the killing of innocent civilians.”

The State Department, which confirmed in a public report to Congress earlier this year that the PA “continued payments to Palestinian prisoners who had committed acts of terrorism, as well as the families of so-called ‘martyrs’ who died while committing acts of terrorism,” is named as a defendant in the suit.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)