Belgium launches war crimes probe into Belgian-Israeli man fighting in Gaza
Belgian authorities announced on Friday that they have launched an investigation into whether a Belgian-Israeli man committed possible war crimes when fighting for Israel in Gaza.
The federal prosecutor's office said the probe focuses on a Belgian member of an elite unit of the Israeli military.
"We have opened a file on possible war crimes," a spokesperson for the prosecutor's office told AFP.
The suspect hasn't been named, but AFP is reporting that he is a man in his 20s from Brussels' upmarket suburb of Uccle.
The official probe is a result of the work of Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi, who went on X to report on an Israeli sniper unit called "Refaim", or "Ghosts" in Hebrew. Tirawi reported on the unit's "brutal executions of unarmed civilians".
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In an unprecedented & biggest investigation into war crimes in Gaza, we expose the elite & secretive IDF sniper team, the Ghost Unit "Refaim" & their brutal executions of unarmed civilians
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