The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), the Palestinian-Belgian organization pursuing IDF soldiers who travel abroad, filed another such complaint in Amsterdam on Friday.<\/p>\n
According to HRF<\/a>, the young Israeli man served in the IDF as a sergeant in the \u201cZion\u201d company of the 97th Netzah Yehuda Battalion. This is not the first complaint the organization has filed in the Netherlands against Israelis.<\/p>\n According to the organization, the young man was involved in the destruction of the \u201cPalace of Justice,\u201d the Palestinian Supreme Court complex in Gaza. The organization claims this was the deliberate destruction of a civilian building and describes it as a war crime.<\/p>\n The main evidence presented by the organization consists of videos it claims the young man himself posted on Instagram in January 2024. In one of the videos, a voice can be heard saying things such as: \u201cWe will reach their court… We are everywhere,\u201d and in another video, the controlled demolition of the building can be seen. For its part, the IDF claimed that the building was used as Hamas<\/a> infrastructure.<\/p>\n Despite clear General Staff orders prohibiting soldiers from filming and sharing photos and videos in uniform or from combat zones, the IDF has yet to end the phenomenon, which is entangling them and the State of Israel. The organization is demanding that Dutch authorities open a criminal investigation, issue an arrest warrant, and seize the incriminating digital evidence.<\/p>\n This is another complaint in a series of many that the organization has filed<\/a> against Israelis abroad. So far, more than 80 complaints have been filed in more than 25 countries. In most cases, the complaints have been ignored or have not led to significant progress.<\/p>\n \u201cA person who stood inside Gaza\u2019s Supreme Court and declared: \u2018We will reach their court, we will reach their homes\u2019 is not a bystander,\u201d said the organization\u2019s director general, Dyab Abou Jahjah.<\/p>\n