{"id":280532,"date":"2025-07-21T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280532\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:54:10","slug":"belgian-police-question-two-israelis-over-war-crimes-accusations-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280532\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian police question two Israelis over war crimes accusations | Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Belgian authorities have said they briefly held and questioned two Israeli citizens who attended an electronic music festival last week, after pro-Palestinian groups accused them of war crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Prosecutors said they had received legal complaints alleging that two Israeli soldiers responsible for \u201cserious violations of international humanitarian law\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaza<\/a> were spotted at the Tomorrowland festival near the northern city of Antwerp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The federal prosecutor\u2019s office said it had asked the police to locate the two people named in the complaint and to interview them. \u201cFollowing these interviews, they were released,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The office said it had taken action after concluding that Belgian courts had extraterritorial jurisdiction over alleged war crimes. \u201cNo further information will be given at this stage of the investigation,\u201d the office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The two Israelis have not been named.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Last week, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), a Belgian pro-Palestinian organisation, said it had identified two Israeli soldiers \u201cresponsible for grave international crimes\u201d in Gaza among the crowds at Tomorrowland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">It claimed that a group of young Israeli men were seen at the festival waving a flag of the Givati Brigade, an Israeli military unit involved in the fighting in the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">HRF said it had filed a complaint with prosecutors in association with the Global Legal Action Network, a lawyers\u2019 group specialising in human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">One of the world\u2019s largest electronic music festivals, Tomorrowland draws music enthusiasts from all over the world. About 400,000 people are expected to attend the event this year over two weekends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgian authorities have said they briefly held and questioned two Israeli citizens who attended an electronic music festival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-280532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114892509270821924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}