Quds News Network

Berlin (Quds News Network)- A Berlin-based human rights organization filed a criminal complaint on Wednesday with the German Federal Public Prosecutor's Office against a German-born Israeli sniper suspected of killing unarmed Palestinian cuvilians in Gaza, which constitutes a war crime, during the ongoing genocide. The soldier was identified as a 25-year-old dual German-Israeli citizen from Munich and a member of a sniper unit in the Israeli military who served in Gaza during the first months of the war. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) complaint, filed with the involvement of Palestinian NGOs as well, comes after a five-month collaborative investigation by journalists from the Guardian, Der Spiegel, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, Paper Trail Media and German public broadcaster ZDF was published Tuesday. The team identified six unarmed Palestinian civilians from the Doghmosh family shot by the snipers, most of them lone soldiers, on November 22, 2023 in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighborhood. The complaint, and much of the evidence, relies on an interview that the US-born soldier gave last year under false pretenses, in which he mentioned the German-born soldier, his partner in the field. Both lone soldiers served in Gaza as members of the Ninth Platoon of the IDF's 202nd Paratroopers Battalion, according to the criminal complaint. In the interview, the US-Israeli one confirms his "team" killed between 100 and 120 people, which he calls an "extremely impressive" number, according to Der Spiegel. The ECCHR states that legal action has already been taken against members of the same Israeli unit in France, Italy, South Africa and Belgium. The first criminal complaint against the German-Israeli soldier was filed in January by Munich prosecutors. That time, the Federal Prosecutor closed it quickly due to lack of evidence, and the man was not interrogated by German authorities. More than 63,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start if the genocide in Gaza in October 2023, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the majority of them children and women.

Criminal Complaint Filed in Germany Against Munich-Born Israeli Sniper for War Crimes in Gaza

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