In February 2024, Palestinian activists established the Hind Rajab Foundation to hold Israeli criminals accountable in the Belgian capital, Brussels. The foundation is a Brussels-based human rights organization that seeks justice for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
According to AP News Agency, the foundation is named after Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child who was killed by the Israeli occupation army in January 2023 in the Gaza Strip. The foundation is affiliated with the March 30 movement and works to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for war crimes committed against Palestinians.
It has collected information on more than 1,000 Israeli soldiers with dual citizenship who participated in the Gaza war and has filed more than 30 complaints against them in 8 countries. The latest lawsuit concerns a member of the Israeli army reservist stationed in Barcelona.
Earlier, the foundation filed a lawsuit demanding the arrest of senior Israeli army officer Ghassan Alian, who is hiding in Italy. The other lawsuit was filed against Swedish army soldier Boaz Ben-David, who is accused of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide in Gaza.
Israeli media reported that two Israeli soldiers were arrested in Mexico on Tuesday. Previously, a Brazilian judge had issued an arrest warrant for a Zionist soldier on charges of war crimes, after which the soldier fled the country. The basis of Hind Rajab's lawsuits are images of crimes committed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza published on social networks.
Currently, the foundation has compiled a list of the names of hundreds of Zionist soldiers with dual citizenship, whose second citizenship was granted by a country that has signed the Rome Statute. The videos and images of the destruction of homes and the looting of people’s property in Gaza, which these soldiers published on the orders of the regime’s propaganda department, have become grounds for legal prosecution against them.
In order to prevent the Foundation’s actions, the Israeli army has issued an order to delete all images that the soldiers have published on social media and to refrain from mentioning their membership in the army on their pages. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has also advised against unnecessary travel to countries that have signed the Rome Statute (the European Union, India, the United Kingdom, Thailand, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Mexico and Latin America), and has ordered its embassies in those countries to withdraw soldiers from those countries as soon as possible if they encounter such a situation.
