Why Oct. 7 Victims Are Suing a Palestinian Mogul, with Gary Osen

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

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When people concerned with the future of the Palestinian people talk about the future, they often say, hopefully, that change will come only once we can replace Hamas and other terror groups with entrepreneurial technocrats more interested in building projects than in starting wars. They’re talking, in short, about men like Bashar Masri, a Palestinian-American mogul who developed some of the best known and most lucrative real estate projects in Gaza, including luxury hotels and thriving industrial zones. But as a new bombshell lawsuit argues, Masri’s properties were all used as launching pads for Hamas attacks, including on October 7, 2023, and Masri himself knowingly collaborated with individuals closely tied to the terror group. Gary Osen, one of the attorneys representing October 7 victims in the lawsuit, joins Liel to talk about how Hamas’s terror infrastructure dominates everything in Gaza, and about how the UN and other international aid groups gave millions to support projects that did little more than give terrorists better cover.

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0:00.0	Hey there and welcome back to Routless. I'm Leah Liebowitz and I am not a lawyer.
0:23.7	I never wanted to go to law school in part because any time I started reading lawsuits,
0:28.6	they struck me as deathly boring.
0:31.8	I could not get past the first few lines.
0:34.5	But this week, a brand new lawsuit was filed that reads, like it is better
0:39.9	than anything you will watch on Netflix or Hulu. It is a thriller in the making of the story
0:46.8	of a young Palestinian man who partakes in violent activities against Israel, then forsakes violence,
0:52.9	moves to the United States, gets a degree from Virginia
0:55.7	Tech, does very well in business, and returns to his homeland to argue that there is an
1:01.3	alternative to violence in Hamas. That young man goes on to buy a beautiful mansion in
1:06.4	Kalorama, Washington, right down the road from Barack and Michelle Obama. He goes on to serve on several boards,
1:12.4	including the Harvard Kennedy School Dean's Circle. He goes on to receive untold millions and
1:18.7	millions and millions of dollars and investments from all kinds of international organizations
1:22.4	like the UN and the EU to build great infrastructure in Gaza, including two beautiful hotels and an industrial
1:31.3	park.
1:32.3	The only problem with this great vision of peace and commerce and prosperity is that, as the new
1:40.3	lawsuit argues, all these enterprises have very credible ties to Hamas, not just that,
1:47.8	but were used as bases of attack during the October 7 massacre.
1:52.4	Here to unfold this story is one of the lawyers on this blockbuster new lawsuit.
2:00.9	Gary Osset, have you ever heard a lawsuit described as a blockbuster?
2:05.0	Usually bombshell is the term preferred, but maybe not appropriate for this particular context.
2:13.4	Correct. Okay. Take us, I did my best to give a sort of like brief summary. You are the actual lawyer on the call. Take us through this incredible new lawsuit. Who is the defendant here? And what are the allegations?
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