( Middle East Monitor ) – The International Federation for Human Rights (an international organization based in Paris with the French acronym of FIDH) and five associations have filed a complaint with the Paris Judicial Court against Israeli snipers of French origin, accusing them of deliberately killing civilians in the Gaza Strip.
It quotes Shawan Jabarin, the General Director of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, as saying, “By deliberately targeting and killing Palestinian civilians with the intent to destroy the Palestinian population in Gaza, these Israeli snipers have violated fundamental rules of international law, including acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention.”
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the federation said the complaint was filed by the International Federation for Human Rights, the French Human Rights League and the France Palestine Solidarity Association, as well as three Palestinian organizations: Al-Haq, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.
The complaint names two soldiers of French descent, identified as Sasha A. and Gabriel B. H., who are members of the Israeli army’s Ghost unit. They are accused of committing acts of genocide, torture, war crimes, and the deliberate killing of civilians in Gaza.
The FIDH statement observes,
- “These two soldiers, belonging to the same sniper unit within the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF), are accused of being involved in summary executions in Gaza.
Other complaints against dual national soldiers from the same unit will soon be filed in Italy and before other European courts, while investigations are already ongoing in South Africa and Belgium.”
The organization says that these allegations arise from a documentary produced by the Palestinian reporter Younis Tirawi, which discloses the presence of a “Ghost Unit” sharpshooter division within the Israeli military, the members of which are charged with carrying out extrajudicial killings of Palestinian non-combatants in Gaza between November 2023 and March 2024, including at Nasser Hospital.
Since 7 October 2023, Israel, with American support, has carried out what has been described by rights groups as a campaign of genocide in Gaza. The offensive has left more than 190,000 Palestinians killed or wounded—most of them children and women—with over 11,000 reported missing and hundreds of thousands displaced.
Meanwhile, in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, Israeli forces and settlers have intensified attacks, resulting in the killing of at least 988 Palestinians and the injury of around 7,000 others.
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