Flip Switch 🍉🟥 (@flipswitch.bsky.social)

Hind Rajab Foundation announces new legal action against Israeli officials, institutions <article data-history-node-id="431402" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hind-rajab-foundation-announces-new-legal-action-against-israeli" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hind-rajab-foundation-announces-new-legal-action-against-israeli" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hind Rajab Foundation announces new legal action against Israeli officials, institutions</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) on Wednesday announced it has undertaken three new legal actions this month against Israeli officials and institutions.</p> <p>The HRF filed a formal complaint against the European Investment Bank for allegedly channeling over €1 b to Israeli banks and companies blacklisted by the United Nations.</p> <p>"For the first time, a European institution must account for its financing of apartheid," the HRF said.</p> <p>The group then filed a criminal complaint in Germany against the chief of security of the 7 October 2023 Nova music festival, Elkana  Federman, who boasted of actively blocking aid trucks trying to get into Gaza.</p> <p>"Federman is currently in Germany, and under universal jurisdiction, German authorities are legally obliged to act," the HRF said. </p> <p>Also in Germany, HRF lodged a war crimes complaint against former Israeli Prime Minister  Ehud  Olmert "for his command responsibility" in the 2008–2009 Operation  Cast  Lead in Gaza, which killed more than 1,300  Palestinians. <br>  </p> </div> </div> </article> https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hind-rajab-foundation-announces-new-legal-action-against-israeli