{"id":218325,"date":"2026-01-03T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/218325\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:10:10","slug":"hind-rajab-foundation-files-criminal-complaint-against-idf-soldier-in-czech-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/218325\/","title":{"rendered":"Hind Rajab Foundation files criminal complaint against IDF soldier in Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hind Rajab Foundation<\/a> recently filed a criminal complaint to Czech authorities against an Israeli soldier who is visiting the country, the group announced Friday, accusing the soldier of war crimes allegedly committed in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The foundation, a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel legal group based in Belgium and named for a 6-year-old Gazan girl killed in January 2024, has filed dozens of criminal complaints against Israeli soldiers and officials who are visiting or stationed in European countries over the past two years.<\/p>\n

According to the group, the IDF soldier in question is currently a tourist in Prague.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s complaint<\/a> alleges that the soldier, as a member of the Givati Brigade, took part in \u201cgenocide, war crimes, and persecution of civilians committed during Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

Givati has been deployed extensively during the war in Gaza, which began when the Hamas terror group attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n

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Israel vehemently denies it has committed war crimes or genocide in Gaza, and says it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities, stressing that that Hamas uses Gaza\u2019s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tIDF troops of the Givati Brigade are seen in northern Gaza\u2019s Beit Hanoun, July 30, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian\/Times of Israel)<\/p>\n

Since the soldier is currently in the Czech Republic, the group claims that Prague must prosecute the soldier due to its \u201cobligations under international and domestic law\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese crimes fall under universal jurisdiction. Where a suspect is present on Czech territory, prosecutors are not merely empowered to act \u2014 they are legally obliged to do so,\u201d the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate response from Czech authorities.<\/p>\n

According to the group, the soldier was deployed in Gaza between December 2023 and November 2025, \u201cincluding during the siege and destruction\u201d of the al-Shifa hospital complex in Gaza City.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the war, the IDF carried out several operations in and around the Shifa complex, where it said was the site of a major Hamas command center and weapons depot. Despite overwhelming evidence, Hamas has denied operating from Shifa and other health facilities.<\/p>\n

The complaint claims the soldier took part in \u201coperations connected to an attack on a protected medical facility, the siege of civilians, patients, and medical staff, mass detention and mistreatment of Palestinian civilians, practices involving blindfolding, restraint, and humiliation during arrest and transfer operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hind Rajab Foundation is more determined than ever to ensure that 2026 becomes a year of justice for the victims of the Gaza genocide \u2014 not another year of impunity for Israeli perpetrators,\u201d said Dyab Abou Jahjah, the group\u2019s general director of HRF.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tTroops of the IDF\u2019s Givati Brigade operate in the Yabna camp of southern Gaza\u2019s Rafah, June 18, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian\/Times of Israel)<\/p>\n

Beginning in 2024, the Hind Rajab Foundation has used social media posts by Israeli soldiers, officers, and reservists to locate them in an attempt to have them arrested for alleged war crimes when they travel abroad. The group has sparked alarm within Israel, prompting<\/a>\u00a0the IDF to create new rules to better protect troops\u2019 privacy and keep them from being victims of doxxing \u2014 the practice of publishing someone\u2019s personal information online to expose them.<\/p>\n

While the group has spurred European authorities to detain a number of IDF soldiers and forced a soldier visiting Brazil to flee<\/a> back to Israel fearing arrest, it has been unsuccessful in court, and no soldier targeted by the group has been prosecuted for war crimes or any other alleged offenses committed in Gaza.<\/p>\n


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