The grandmother of two French children who died at the end of 2023 complained against Israel for genocide-Liberation
The Israeli authorities referred to by a murder complaint, crime against humanity and genocide. This complaint, initiated by Jacqueline Rivault, a resident of Vitry-sur-Seine, two of whom died in Gaza in October 2023, was filed this Friday, June 6 by the lawyer Arié Alimi At the Crimes Pole against humanity and aims to obtain the designation of an investigating judge. The Human Rights League intends to join it.
French nationality of the victims could trigger the direct competence of French justice and lead it to have to decide on these accusations of « genocide »judged « Scandalous » By Israel, while in this stage, legal initiatives in France in this sense have not prospered.
The 48 -page complaint concerns the death of Janna and Abderrahim Abudaher, then aged 6 and 9, in a house in the North of the Gaza Strip « Struck by two F16 missiles pulled by the Israeli army » On October 24, 2023, 17 days after the unprecedented attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil.
According to the complaint, the « Extreme violence » and « Regular bombardments » From the Israeli army on Gaza after October 7 led the family to leave their apartment on the evening of October 22 to take refuge in another family home and then a school. They would have been affected by two missiles in a new house « North of the Gaza Strip, between Fallouja and Beit Lahia »one of them entering « By the roof and the second directly in the room where the family was » « .
Abderrahim is dead « At the time »and Janna shortly after her transfer to the hospital, according to the complaint. Their brother, Omar, was seriously injured but still lives in Gaza, like his mother, Yasmine Z. Also injured, she was sentenced in 2019 in his absence in Paris for financing terrorism for having distributed money in Gaza to members of Islamic jihad and Hamas between 2012 and 2013. She is targeted by an arrest warrant. Regarding the death of these two children, the anti -terrorist prosecutor’s office, asked the last time at the end of 2024, had not opened an investigation.
The term genocide is advanced by the complaint because this bombing is presented as part of a project aimed at « Eliminate the Palestinian population and subject them to conditions of existence likely to cause the destruction of their group ». The complaint is filed against X but aims by name the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli government and TSAhal.
Israel faces increasing international pressure to end the war that ravages Gaza, triggered on October 7, 2023 by Hamas And who led to the death of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians. In return, Israel launched a military reprisals campaign which killed more than 54,600 Palestinians, mainly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the Government of Hamas for Gaza, deemed reliable by the UN.
Benjamin Netanyahu And The former Yoav Gallant Defense Minister are both targeted by a Advuting mandate of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crime against humanity and war crimes. The International Federation of Human Rights was the first in December 2023 to assert that Israel was committed a genocide, followed by Amnesty International a year later and Human Rights Watch (HRW).
In January 2024, the International Court of Justice (CIJ) called Israel to prevent any act of genocide. The UN humanitarian operations chief also urged world leaders in mid-May to « Act to prevent genocide ». In France, three complaints have been filed in recent months against members of associations with dual French and Israeli nationality, as well as a TSAhal soldier, each being accused of genocide or complicity in genocide.
