Dozens of Israeli soldiers identified in ICC complaint on killing of Hind Rajab

 

The Hind Rajab Foundation has been tracking down the alleged killers of the Palestinian girl and her family

The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF)  announced on Tuesday that it has identified another two dozen Israeli soldiers whom it is referring to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their role in Hind Rajab's death.

The HRF is named after Rajab, the five-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in a barrage of Israeli bullets in Gaza last year during Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people. 

Among those identified are three top commanders that the foundation is naming publicly: Colonel Beni Aharon, the commander of the 401st Armoured Brigade, who is already the subject of an ICC criminal complaint; Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Ella, commander of the 52nd Armoured Battalion; and Major Sean Glass, commander of the Vampire Empire Company. 

Ella and Glass are believed to be directly responsible for the killings in the field.

Twenty-two other soldiers operating in the Vampire Empire Company will be named "progressively, as national-level complaints are filed in different jurisdictions", the HRF said in a statement.

On the heels of an hour-long documentary that aired on Al Jazeera Arabic's Ma Khafiya Aatham (What Is Hidden Is Greater) in partnership with the foundation, HRF said it has submitted a 120-page Article 15 filing, referring these soldiers to the ICC.

Article 15 of the Rome Statute, which founded the ICC, stipulates that the prosecutor "may initiate investigations... on the basis of information on crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court", and "shall analyse the seriousness of the information received".  (more...)

Dozens of Israeli soldiers identified in ICC complaint on killing of Hind Rajab

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