NGO seeks to prosecute British-Israeli forces for genocide in Gaza
NGO seeks to prosecute British-Israeli forces for genocide in Gaza
ONG busca procesar a fuerzas británico-israelíes por genocidio en Gaza | HISPANTV
Una organización palestina de derechos humanos lanza iniciativa jurídica para procesar británicos que han participado en la guerra genocida israelí en Gaza.
A Palestinian human rights organization launches a legal initiative to prosecute Britons who participated in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
According to the British newspaper The Guardian , the International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has filed a formal request to summon a British-Israeli to a UK court under the laws [Section 4 of the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870] that prohibit citizens from enlisting in a foreign army that maintains peaceful relations with London.
The ICJP has accused Israeli forces of waging a war not limited to the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), but against all Palestinians and Palestine itself, a state recognized by the United Kingdom last September.
The ICJP has named only one person in the attempted prosecution, but has gathered evidence against more than 10 British citizens.
The new case follows an earlier 240-page war crimes complaint filed in April with the London Metropolitan Police by British human rights lawyers acting on behalf of the Palestine Human Rights Centre and the Public Interest Law Centre.
The report found British-Israeli forces guilty of killing civilians and aid workers, forcibly displacing residents, and engaging in indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas.
The ICJP's move signals a growing international effort to hold Israeli military personnel and the regime's foreign recruits accountable for war crimes.
In this text, a major contributor to such processing efforts has been the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), named after a young Palestinian woman killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Last October, HRF filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC), seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Military Affairs Minister Yoav Gallant, and all 749 members of the Israeli army's Combat Engineering Battalion for war crimes in Gaza.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has unleashed a genocidal war against Palestinians in the coastal enclave, which has so far resulted in the deaths of nearly 68,519 Palestinians and left more than 170,382 injured. The military campaign has devastated the enclave, causing deaths from starvation, forced displacement, and the spread of disease.