Hind Rajab Foundation lodges complaint with US Justice Department to prosecute Ben-Gvir

The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a complaint with the US Department of Justice (DoJ), seeking the arrest and criminal prosecution of the Israeli regime's so-called minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Ben-Gvir is scheduled to visit to the United States next month, arriving in New York City on July 7.

In a report published on its website on Saturday, the pro-Palestinian group explained that it urged the DoJ authorities to open a criminal investigation, issue an arrest warrant to prevent Ben-Gvir from leaving US jurisdiction while the case is being examined by the Judiciary.

In the report, it cited the US War Crimes Act and the US Genocide Statute, calling for an investigation over Ben-Gvir's authorization of the intensified torture, inhuman treatment, murder, rape, sexual abuse, acts of genocide, and incitement to genocide of Palestinian, especially after the brutal Zionist regime's occupation forces launched the war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023.

HRF's representative in the United States, Jake Romm, said every country in the world has the obligation to arrest him and bring him to justice for his crimes.

Romm demanded that Washington, in particular, has a strong obligation to take legal action against Ben-Gvir because many US citizens have been persecuted at his hands.

Arab-Islamic states condemn Israeli minister over Gaza flotilla harassment, demand accountability

The foreign ministers of eight Arab and Islamic nations have strongly condemned Israeli police minister Itamar Ben‑Gvir for his actions toward participants of a Gaza‑bound aid flotilla while they were in Israeli detention.

"Every state in the world, including the United States, has the obligation to arrest him and bring him to justice for his crimes," Romm said.

“Itamar Ben Gvir is among the greatest criminals of our time—a man responsible for enacting a barbaric policy of murder, torture, rape, and abuse across the Israeli prison system; a man responsible for directly inciting genocide and issuing orders to ensure that it is carried out on the ground; a man for whom even the slaughter of the past two and a half years does not go far enough.

“Every state in the world, including the United States, has the obligation to arrest him and bring him to justice for his crimes. What’s more, Ben Gvir’s torture and abuse of US citizens triggers the most basic sovereign duty: to protect one’s own nationals.”

Romm said that this moment is a test of justice in the United States, for the world to see if Washington will be accountable in its duty and can the US be trusted to stick to its moral obligation in defending the human rights of defenseless Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and elsewhere.  

Numerous Palestinians, international bodies, and NGOs, have testified that under Ben Gvir’s leadership in past years, Israeli regime forces have been subjecting more and more abducted Palestinians to torture in Israeli detention centers and jails.

International activists who boarded the Gaza-bound Flotillas gave shocking testimonies of violence and torture during the interception of their vessels by Israeli occupation forces led by Ben-Gvir.

Earlier, arrest warrants have been issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity over the Gaza war.

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