The Hind Rajab Foundation, which is named after a five-year-old Palestinian girl murdered along with her family by 355 machine gun bullets fired point blank by an Israeli tank, has launched war crimes complaints against two alleged Israeli war criminals in Europe.

Hind Rajab: taking action

In the Netherlands, the Hind Rajab Foundation’s legal counsel Haroon Raza has filed a criminal complaint with the Dutch National Prosecutor for International Crimes against Adir Yiftach, a former occupation soldier currently in the Netherlands. The complaint includes a full investigative report and an urgent request for arrest and prosecution.

Yiftach was a combat medic in the 424th ‘Shaked’ Infantry Battalion of the Givati Brigade, under the 401st Armoured, during the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza.

The Hind Rajab Foundation reports that these units are directly implicated in grave breaches of international humanitarian law, including the destruction of Gaza City and Rafah, the siege of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, and the killing of Hind Rajab and her family.

And in Greece, the foundation has filed against Israeli tanker Naor Shlomo Dadon for war crimes and genocide in Gaza. Dadon is currently attending a ‘healing retreat’ for Israeli war criminals in Zagora, promoted as trauma recovery.

The cases add to the growing number of attempts to bring Israeli perpetrators to justice, some of which have been thwarted by the actions of colluding governments or by the accused fleeing with the aid of Israeli intelligence.

However, even when unsuccessful these actions put pressure on Israeli war criminals and ‘shrink the world’ to which they have access without fear of consequences – so much so that the Israeli government has warned its citizens to hide their military history if they decide to travel abroad.

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