A year ago today, six year old Hind Rajab was killed by an Israeli tank as she hid for safety in Gaza. Today, a Belgian foundation is hunting Israeli war criminals in her name.
It was a dreadful way for a little girl to die – crouching in the back of a crushed, bullet-ridden car, stranded at a Gaza intersection, meters away from an Israeli Merkava tank; her aunt and uncle dead in the front seat; four cousins slumped over beside her, seeping blood; pleading to a Palestinian dispatcher on the other end of a cell phone line, begging for help, crying that she was scared.
Then, in a flash, ripped to shreds by a torrent of machine gun rounds – possibly American.
Hind Rajab was killed one year ago today. She was six years old.
Now, a foundation established in Hind’s name is seeking justice, not just for Hind, but for the countless Palestinians killed by Israel in contravention of international law.
But the foundation isn’t going after Israel as a state, it’s taking a different approach – going after Israeli soldiers themselves.
In an October 8 filing to the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, the Brussels-based Hind Rajab Foundation has identified a thousand Israeli soldiers it thinks the court should prosecute, based on 8,000 pieces of evidence, including the soldiers’ own social media posts from ravaged Gaza.
Among the acts Israeli recruits and officers have crowed about on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Telegram and other social media networks: indiscriminate bombing; targeted killing of non-combatants, including medical personnel, journalists, and civilians waving white flags; wanton destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, markets, and mosques; forcible starvation, and looting. (more...)
Inside the Hind Rajab Foundation, the organization hunting Israeli war criminals around the globe
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