News - Middle East: The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed an appeal, challenging Spain’s decision to dismiss a criminal complaint filed by the pro-Palestinian advocacy group against an Israeli trooper over genocide and war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

The group commented on the appeal in a post on X on Sunday, identifying the trooper as Tameer (Tamer) Mulla, a former sergeant in the Israeli military’s 101st Paratrooper Battalion.

The complaint, originally submitted in Barcelona, had referred to Mulla’s deadly crimes committed during the regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide on the coastal sliver.

It had used extensive photographic and video evidence, including material self-published by the trooper himself, as evidence.

Represented by lawyer David Aranda Checa and procuradora Isabel Afonso Rodríguez, the HRF says the dismissal violates international law, the Spanish Constitution, and fundamental rights to access justice.

Spain, as a signatory to the Rome Statute that founded the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Geneva Conventions, is obligated to either prosecute or extradite individuals over grave violations, the group reported.

With Mulla currently in Barcelona, it said, Spanish courts have universal jurisdiction to act.

The foundation stressed that national courts had to ensure justice at junctures where the ICC investigates only senior officials, leaving accountability for individuals to domestic jurisdictions.

The ICC has so far issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister for military affairs, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, where the genocide has claimed the lives of more than 67,100 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Source: Press TV