Yoav Gallant, Israel Katz and military top brass accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Lawyers call it a test for the country's justice system
Five-year-old Malik still hides food beside his pillow before he goes to sleep - sometimes a piece of bread, sometimes fruit, sometimes a sweet.
His four-year-old sister Razan sets aside part of every meal, even when there is plenty on her plate.
Malik confuses the words "tent" and "home". Both children flinch at smoke and flashing red lights, bracing for bombs.
More than two years have passed since their parents got them out of Gaza. The memories have not left them.
On Monday, their father, Amjad Agha, and another Palestinian-Polish survivor, Ahmed Elsaftawy, walked into the district prosecutor's office in Wrocław, southern Poland, and filed a criminal complaint accusing senior Israeli officials of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.
Among those named are former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant and his successor, Israel Katz; the former and current chiefs of staff of the Israeli army; the commander of the Israeli navy; the minister of energy and water; and the current and former heads of the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat), the body that controls humanitarian access to Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
It is one of the first cases of its kind in Europe brought by named survivors with dual citizenship, and lawyers say it is designed to test whether Polish prosecutors will treat international crimes against their own nationals with the seriousness the law demands. (more...)
Polish-Palestinian survivors take Israeli leaders to court over Gaza genocide
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