The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), an anti-Israel activist group, demanded the arrest and prosecution of an Israeli-German national who served in the IDF, in a statement released on Friday.
German attorney Melanie Schweizer launched the complaint on behalf of the HRF in May, accusing the IDF combat engineer of “war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide,” according to a statement released by the foundation.
The accusations stem from a number of social media posts from the soldier documenting his participation in military operations in the Gaza Strip.
The posts include videos of him triggering detonations from afar, an action essential to the role of a combat engineer, and photos of himself and fellow soldiers posing in front of explosions.
Schweizer, the attorney who filed the complaint with the German federal prosecutor-general, declared that the German legal system has a “clear obligation” to prosecute the combat engineer that is “not optional.”
Schweizer continued to threaten that should the German prosecutor-general fail to investigate, it would be “a legal and moral abdication” resulting in the prosecutor general being complicit in the accused's “war crimes.”
The dual citizen deleted the controversial posts and made his social media accounts private after the complaint was filed.
HRF complaints against the IDF
The HRF has a history of launching social media campaigns and legal complaints against IDF soldiers and individuals with ties to Israel, as well as advocating for Hamas.
In July, two IDF soldiers were arrested and interrogated by Belgian law enforcement while attending a music festival following similar accusations from the HRF.
In August, the foundation filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the IDF killed Anas al-Sharif, who the IDF stated was an active Hamas terrorist for over a decade. The HRF claimed that al-Sharif was a journalist and that the killing was a “war crime,” demanding the ICC prosecute IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir and other IDF officials.