Pro-Palestine NGO files complaint in India against Israeli soldier vacationing in the country

The Hind Rajab Foundation on Tuesday said that it has filed a criminal complaint in India against an Israeli soldier vacationing in the country.

The Belgium-based nonprofit organisation did not identify the soldier, but stated that he had documented his deployment in Gaza and his alleged “direct involvement in the unlawful destruction” of civilian property during Israeli operations in the Khan Younis governorate of the besieged Palestinian enclave.

The foundation said that the soldier “may have been involved” in war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide.

The organisation pursues legal action against persons responsible for atrocities against Palestinians.

The pro-Palestine group’s complaint focuses on the “systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure” in the Abasan al-Saghira area of Khan Younis between March 2024 and April 2024. The foundation said that it had identified the suspect as “a member of the unit involved in these criminal acts”.

Satellite imagery and social media footage verified by the Hind Rajab Foundation, and open-source intelligence “confirm that extensive demolition occurred after Israeli forces had established operational control of the area, rather than because of active combat”, it alleged.

The Hind Rajab Foundation said that the acts constituted war crimes under Articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute.

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