The Times of Israel reported Wednesday that Dr. Alan Bauer, an American who was injured in a 2002 Jerusalem terror attack, is seeking to seize the ships that were involved in the 2010 flotilla, run by the Turkish group IHH, that attempted to break Israel’s legal blockade of Gaza.

The suit, which was originally filed in June 2011 by Dr. Alan Bauer, seeks to confiscate the 14 ships on the grounds that they were used in a hostile fashion against a nation friendly to the United States.

Bauer’s argument contends that the vessels, including the Mavi Marmara, violated the Neutrality Act of 1794, which makes it illegal “to furnish, arm or fit out any vessel for hostile use against a foreign country.”

The report explains that since those who were in charge of the flotilla “were affiliated with Hamas,” which has been designated as a terror organization by the United States government and funded in part “by American pro-Palestinian groups,” the vessels could “be seized under the provisions of the act.” IHH is part of an umbrella group, Union of the Good, which has been designated by the American Treasury Department as “an organization created by Hamas leadership to transfer funds to the terrorist organization.”

Bauer’s most recent filing is an appeal of the decision to dismiss the case.

Bauer’s lawsuit is being supported by Shurat Hadin – The Israel Law Center. In his profile of Shurat Hadin founder Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, The Woman Who Makes Jihadis Squirm, which appeared in the February 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, editor David Hazony quotes Darshan-Leitner about her organization’s creative strategy for fighting terror groups: “We filed dozens of cases in 1999 and 2000. Every one tested a different legal theory, used a different never-been-tried argument. Every one meant depositions and research, going through the awful details. In some cases we had to invent the process too, not just the argument.”

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