Tel Aviv, December 13 (RHC)-- Israeli soldiers involved in the genocidal war on Gaza have been urged to refrain from posting war photos over fears of prosecution abroad, a month after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for heads of the Israeli regime.
“Do not post a picture of yourself in the battlefields of Gaza or elsewhere. Do not even post at all on social media,” an account on X which claims to be affiliated with Israeli spy agency Mossad wrote on Thursday.
It warned the soldiers that the soldiers’ information may be sent to countries that they may visit some day, “and you may be arrested.” “Your vacation will turn into a nightmare.”
Commenting on the warning, the Hind Rajab Foundation, which has been pursuing justice for the Palestinian victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, said: “It is too late; the evidence has been documented. War criminals who have essentially testified against themselves will not escape justice.”
The group said “the true nightmare, however, is not that their vacation is ruined”, but “the genocide these criminals have committed.”
The group has filed several complaints in various countries against Israeli forces who participated in the genocidal war on Gaza. It also filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against 1,000 Israeli soldiers.
The foundation is named after Hind Rajab, a symbol of Gaza's suffering. On January 29, Hind had been traveling in a car with her uncle, his wife and their three children, fleeing fighting in the neighborhood of Tel Al-Hawa in Gaza City, when they came under Israeli fire.
Trapped in the bullet-ridden vehicle and surrounded by her dead relatives, Hind begged for help from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS). Two first responders, Yousef Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun, were deployed in a bid to save Hind, but the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) soon lost contact with them, along with the little girl.
On February 10, the bodies of Hind and her relatives were found lying in the car. Just meters away, a burned-out ambulance was found with the remains of the two paramedics who tried to save the girl.
Last month, the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I issued warrants of arrest for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant "for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.”
The arrest warrants mean that those accused could face arrest should they travel to one of the ICC’s 124 member states.
Earlier this month, Israeli media reported that the military had warned 30 soldiers and officers who participated in the onslaught on the Gaza Strip to avoid traveling abroad after pro-Palestinian groups filed complaints against them for their war crimes.
Israel launched a genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 44,835 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 106,356 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.
