21/7/2025–|Last update: 15:10 (Mecca time)
Foundation confirmed Hind Ragab Today, Monday, the Belgian police arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers on charges of war crimes in Gaza StripBefore you release them.
She added – in a statement – that the arrest and investigation of the two soldiers came in response to an urgent criminal complaint submitted this week by the Hind Ragab Foundation and the global network of legal work.
She added that the suspects were identified and arrested in a visible and firm manner during the “Tomorolland” festival in Boom. After they were in detention, they underwent an official interrogation and then released.
She noted that the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office opened a criminal investigation into the case.
The Foundation considered that the investigation with the two soldiers constitutes a turning point in the global pursuit of justice, and sends a message that “the reliable evidence of international crimes must be met with legal measures, not by political ignorance.”
“Start an important matter”
“We do not claim that justice has been fulfilled, not yet. But we believe that no matter how much it has started. For the first time in Europe, Israeli suspects linked to crimes in Gaza are subject to arrest and official interrogation. It would not have happened without the force of law and will to implement it,” the Hind Ragab Foundation said in the statement.
In the past months, dozens of legal complaints against the occupation soldiers have been raised in European and American countries against the occupation soldiers for war crimes in the Gaza Strip submitted by the “Hind Ragab” Foundation.
In March, the International Center for Justice for the Palestinians also launched the “Global 195” initiative to pursue the Israelis involved in war crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
It is mentioned that in press interviews, a number of occupation soldiers confessed to war crimes in the Gaza Strip, and some documented the video clips that they shared on social media.