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"Seeking Justice": How the Hind Rajab Foundation Pursues Israeli Soldiers for War Crimes (Extended Interview)

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Belgian Lebanese activist Dyab Abou Jahjah, the founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation, discusses how the organization seeks to hold Israeli soldiers accountable for war crimes committed in Gaza. Named after a 6-year-old girl who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza almost a year ago, the Hind Rajab Foundation uses evidence gathered from soldiers’ own social media to build cases against them. The group recently filed a complaint against a soldier in Brazil, leading a local judge to issue an arrest warrant for him that he only avoided by fleeing to Argentina. “Unfortunately, the Israeli government smuggled the soldier out of Brazil, which is, of course, obstructing justice,” Abou Jahjah tells Democracy Now! “We are relentless in seeking justice, and we are very convinced that one day justice also will be served in a court of law.”

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0:00.0

This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org. I'm Amy Goodman. We end today's show with a look at a new effort told Israeli soldiers accountable despite a climate of impunity for crimes committed in Gaza.

0:15.1

Last week, Poland adopted a resolution ensuring that Israeli Prime Minister and Benjamin Netanyahu will be

0:22.0

guaranteed safe entry to Poland to attend ceremonies marking 80 years since the liberation of the

0:27.9

Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Poland's deputy foreign minister had said earlier Poland

0:33.5

would comply with the international criminal court's arrest warrants if Netanyahu

0:38.2

visited Poland.

0:39.6

Here in the U.S., the House of Representatives voted last week to sanction the International

0:44.6

Criminal Court over arrest warrants for Netanyahu and the former military chief, Yoav,

0:49.7

Galant.

0:50.3

But in Belgium, a nonprofit called the Hind Rajab Foundation, filed a lawsuit Thursday

0:56.0

against an Israeli soldier in Sweden who they accuse of playing a direct role in the targeting

1:01.5

of civilians and destruction of homes.

1:04.1

Earlier this month, Israel's embassy in Brazil helped a 21-year-old Israeli Army reservists

1:10.8

flee Brazil after a Brazilian federal

1:13.2

court ordered police to open an investigation into possible war crimes he committed in Gaza.

1:18.8

That case had also been filed by the Hind Rajab Foundation.

1:22.8

The Brussels-based nonprofit is named after six-year-old Henbrajab, who was killed along with

1:28.9

her family in a January 2024 Israeli attack as they were in a car escaping bombardment

1:36.9

in Gaza City, a story we covered extensively.

1:40.7

For more, we're joined now in Brussels by Dieb Aboujaja, co-founder of the Henrejab Foundation.

1:48.4

Diab, thank you for joining us.

1:50.2

Explain what you are calling for.

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