Dutch court to rule on Palestinian’s case against Israeli minister

An appeals court in the
Netherlands is set to rule in a case alleging war crimes
against Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz, who is blamed by a
Dutch Palestinian for the loss of six relatives in an Israeli
air strike on Gaza in 2014.

Ismail Ziada filed the civil case against Gantz and another
former senior Israeli military official, seeking unspecified
damages under Dutch universal jurisdiction rules.

His case was
thrown out by a lower Dutch court in January 2020.

Ziada appealed, arguing that universal jurisdiction should
be applied in civil cases if the alleged conduct involved
serious violations of international humanitarian law.

He asked
the appeals judges to reverse the decision, which effectively
granted Gantz immunity from prosecution.

Gantz, a career soldier turned politician, was
commander-in-chief of the Israeli armed forces during a war
against the Gaza Strip in 2014, when
the incident took place.

War crimes committed

About 2,200 Palestinians are estimated to have been killed, up to 1,500 of them civilians, in the conflict, according to UN figures.

Ziada said he lost relatives when his family home in Gaza was bombed during a June 2014 Israeli air strike. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and five civilians were killed.

Human rights groups have accused both sides of war crimes in the 2014 conflict. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is currently investigating alleged war crimes committed on Palestinian territory since June 2014 by both Israeli defence forces and Palestinian groups.

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