Hind Rajab Foundation ‘quadruple strikes’ against Israeli impunity

The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), which is named after a five-year-old girl murdered along with her family by an Israeli tank in Gaza and which pursues justice against Israeli perpetrators, says it has struck a triple blow this month. The targets: Israel’s habitual impunity and Europe’s collaboration in it.

In a statement released in its newsletter today, HRF writes that:

In the last ten days, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has delivered three powerful legal blows against Israeli impunity and European complicity. Together, they signal a new phase in the global struggle for justice.

First, our formal complaint against the European Investment Bank (EIB) — for channelling over €1 billion in EU funds to Israeli banks and companies blacklisted by the United Nations — has been deemed admissible and moved to formal assessment. For the first time, a European institution must account for its financing of apartheid.

Second, HRF has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against Israeli extremist Elkana Federman, accused of torture and the starvation of civilians during the war on Gaza. Federman is currently in Germany and under universal jurisdiction, German authorities are legally obliged to act.

Finally, HRF has lodged a war crimes complaint in Germany against former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his command responsibility in the 2008–2009 Gaza massacre (“Operation Cast Lead”), which killed over 1,300 Palestinians and obliterated entire civilian neighborhoods.

But in fact, the tireless Hind Rajab Foundation moves so fast that its newsletter, published today, can’t keep up with its own progress: yesterday it filed a fourth case, against alleged Israeli war criminal Sharon Dawit in Cyprus – a favourite bolthole of the occupation’s perpetrators – along with a detailed dossier of 424 Battalion sergeant Dawit’s humiliation of bound Palestinian abductees.

So relentless has the HRF been in its pursuit of Israeli war criminals that Israel’s agents were exposed plotting to kill both HRF director Dyab Abou Jahjah and his family.

Featured image via HRF website