BREAKING: Israel threatens Hind Rajab Foundation chairman and family

The Hind Rajab Foundation, the justice organisation set up to pursue Israeli war criminals legally in the name of Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl murdered along with her family by 355 bullets from an Israeli tank at point blank range, says it has uncovered a credible threat to its chair Dyab Abou Jahjah and his family from Israeli agents.

Hind Rajab Foundation: threatened by Israel

The Hind Rajab Foundation has lodged criminal complaints with local governments against a number of alleged war criminals sheltering in countries outside Israel. In a statement this morning, it explained what it had uncovered:

The HRF is gravely concerned about a serious and imminent security threat against our Chairman, Mr. Dyab Abou Jahjah, and his family.

Credible information indicates that individuals linked to Israeli security networks active in Antwerp, and with possible connections to extremist organizations such as the Jewish Defense League, are involved in this threat. There are also concerns that such structures may be connected to official Israeli state bodies.

While this is first and foremost a direct threat to the personal safety of Mr. Abou Jahjah and his family, it also constitutes a threat to the Hind Rajab Foundation and its work in seeking justice and accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine.

In light of these developments, the Belgian police and other security services have initiated measures, and the protective arrangements already in place for Mr. Abou Jahjah have been significantly tightened. The Hind Rajab Foundation and Mr. Abou Jahjah are fully collaborating with the relevant authorities to ensure that all necessary steps are taken.

→ The Hind Rajab Foundation and its Chairman will not be intimidated.
→ ​We will continue our work undeterred, but we expect all levels of security and state protection to treat this situation with the urgency and seriousness it deserves.

The threat against the Hind Rajab Foundation is by no means notional.

Israel has repeatedly murdered its targets in on the territory of other countries, from its bombing of Iranian officials in an embassy in Syrian capital Damascus to its killing of Hamas’s then-lead peace negotiator Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, to its murder of more than thirty journalists in their media offices in Yemen, to its failed attempt to murder the current Hamas peace delegation in the capital of US ally Qatar, which killed a number of innocent bystanders.

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