Palestinian journalist Mohammed Al-Helou, who was injured while working in the field in the Gaza Strip, along with the Brussels-based Hind Rajab Foundation, filed a criminal complaint against a dual Belgian-Israeli citizen, accusing him of serving as a sniper in the Israeli army.
The Belgian newspaper Le Soir reported that Al-Helou, 24, currently residing as a refugee in the Netherlands, and the Hind Rajab Foundation submitted a request last week to a Brussels court to open an investigation into a person identified only by his initials (A.B.), believed to be residing in the Belgian capital, as well as others whose identities have not yet been revealed.
According to the complaint, A.B. served in the Refaim sniper unit of an Israeli army battalion and is suspected of involvement in serious violations of international humanitarian law.
While working as a journalist in Gaza, Al-Helou was shot by a sniper while covering events near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis between November 2023 and February 2024, despite wearing protective gear clearly marked “PRESS” to indicate his press credentials.
Al-Helou survived the attack after the bullet struck his protective vest, while his 14-year-old brother was killed during Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Al-Helou and his lawyer, Ian Vermon, from the Hind Rajab Foundation, submitted the complaint along with photos and videos, as well as medical reports and witness testimonies confirming the facts.
The Hind Rajab Foundation works to document and prosecute Israeli military personnel suspected of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The foundation is named after Hind Rajab, a Palestinian girl who was killed along with six members of her family in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their car southwest of Gaza City on January 29, 2024.
Established in Brussels in February 2024, the foundation focuses on pursuing legal action against Israeli officials and military personnel in national and international courts. Quds Press
This article was written on 28 February, 2024 at the apex of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on countercurrents.org. Not content with their atrocities, Israeli soldiers posted their havoc online for all to see. The videos are revealing for their depravity.
Israeli army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, now fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was so embarrassed with the videos shown on the social media posted by his soldiers in Gaza, he issued a communique instructing his men and women euphemistically not to “film revenge videos”.
These videos have shown soldiers in various situations as dehumanizing Palestinians, raiding their homes, rummaging their drawers, sitting on their tables and going through their underwear in front of the camera while laughing about the fact. They have displayed torture and humiliation not befitting a “professional army”, as they like to call themselves.
Halevi’s comments have been across the media, locally in Israel and internationally. Yet they don’t seem to be making much impact, for the videoclips that have already been posted are retweeted while new ones continue to be splashed across the social media.
The Gaza war has come to be a fascination for Israeli soldiers, a tough series of battleground in the 265-kilometer stretch they’ve never experienced first-hand as they do today. Most of their wars on Gaza have been from the air, this time it is on-ground.
Indeed, the videos show a disturbed Israeli mind. Are the soldiers fighting in Gaza or looking at negligees and bras of women who run aways from their homes and/or were killed by Israeli bombers?
The ground battle has been so hard on them as nearly 3000 soldiers needed to be examined by mental health officers since 7 October the Israeli army reveals and this figure is likely to go up as the conflict intensifies. This is while 2000 soldiers in the “combat zone” need psychiatric treatment says Yekhiel Levechhitz of the clinical department of mental illnesses in the Israeli army.
The heel thief
Imagine dangling a pair of heels in front of the camera? This is what an Israeli soldier did as he posted a video of himself with the shoes after he looted a house raided by the Israeli army.
In a state of excitement, he says these pair of heels, shining white, are for his fiancé for their upcoming engagement party.
Israeli soldiers are raiding houses as if they are their own and nobody can stop them.
An Israeli soldier gifts his wife a pair of heels he looted from a displaced Palestinian family in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/ea3VxmLDSC
Six Israeli soldiers play cards on a prayer mat in a building they took in Al Shati Camp east of Gaza.
It seems they are taking time off from their arrests and vandalism. With plastic cups around, they seem to be playing whilst gambling at the same time.
The prayer mat underneath maybe a strong signal of their distaste to the Palestinian owners and their religion.
🔴🔴عاجل و هاااام 🔴🔴
آخر ظهور للعقيد " نفيري " ومجموعته في احد منازل #غزة وهم يلتقطونسيلفي في غرفة نوم مع علاقي داخلي لسيدة فلسطينية.. بعدها تم نسف المنزل بهم ودفنوا تحت الانقاض🥴
الي حاب اعرف.. من منهم حيبعث يوم القيامة لابس العلاقي الاحمر.. العقيد والا الحراسة🥴🥴… pic.twitter.com/gahSuyCicn
Israel soldiers pose for a selfie in a bedroom of a Palestinian family that was forced to leave their home under Israeli gunfire.
Six soldiers with their guns pose whilst one holds a negligee as another points his finger to it. Is this supposed to mean something?
Their secret stays with them. Shortly after, it was reported the wrecked house was bombed by the Palestinian resistance and all of the soldiers were killed and presently lie under the wreckage like the thousands of Gazans that lie underneath the rubble of their bombed houses.
Although the last point might be doubted since according to Defense Ministry statistics, 17 percent of Israelis soldiers who are killed do so through friendly-fire.
‘Depravity’
Israeli soldiers whilst not fighting Izz Al Din Al Qassam and Saraya Al Quds fighters appear to like raiding Palestinian homes.
One blogger described these #Israeli soldiers as “depraved and degenerate”. He said these soldiers “expose their depravity” and make “fun of the injured” whilst dehumanizing the dead and displaced #Palestinians which they killed.
How does a “depraved” soldier hold balloons with a big smile whilst someone in the background lies tied, gagged and blindfolded on the floor?
In another post, the blogger asks: “How rotten must your entire (Israeli) society be for you to pose with such pride near underwear of women you murdered,” and adds “they don’t fear criticism because this sort of sexual intimidation is encouraged in Israel. Makes me feel sick.”
Expose, name & shame these #Israeli soldiers dehumanising #Palestinians : keep a record for when there’s a big legal case against all the crimes of @idf .. every single one of them pic.twitter.com/b91VehTtXG
The Israeli army may say they are playing with the souls of Palestinians in Gaza, but they are wrong.
In this image, five Israeli soldiers talk to a doll in a kufiyah they obviously stole from a house they just raided.
Its graphic: The contour of the soldiers, their facial expression, the surroundings; the image says it all, the soldiers appear to be happily playing with the plastic doll that was placed at the back of their military Jeep amidst an environ of destruction and mayhem.
These depraved degenerate #Israeli soldiers too. Expose their depravity. Making fun of injured, dehumanised & dead #Palestinians & holding lingerie of Palestinian women, either displaced or likely killed by them. @idf are devoid of any humanity pic.twitter.com/yw3um2YWVm
Not satisfied with the raids on people’s houses, Israeli soldiers, and this is coming from the so-called most moral army in the world, as if this not a great joke, a red negligee is displayed full-frontal on an armored vehicle.
One blogger expresses her disdain and western hypocrisy of what they see in front of them.
Why is this Israeli soldier sleeping in a baby’s crib for? This is a selfie; the soldier took of himself while pretending to sleep in the baby’s crib. It makes you ask: Where is the baby now, where is his family, are they still alive, displaced may, have they been killed?
The final image is taken in one of the houses in Khan Younis, the second largest city in the Gaza Strip. This is where the Israeli army have been held up for the last 2-3 months, unable to overcome the resistance despite their mighty airpower.
Khan Younis is below the center of Gaza, and the rest of the outskirts of the city to the east, is putting up stiff resistance to Israeli soldiers who are getting either killed or maimed and injured by the day and as testified to by the Israeli hospitals.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that “reciprocal security” is the “ceiling” of negotiations with Israel.
“The ceiling of negotiations with the Israeli enemy is reciprocal security, and there is no other ceiling,” he said in a televised speech.
He called for giving priority to halting the Israeli assaults, Israel’s withdrawal from all Lebanese territory, the return of prisoners, the return of the displaced to their areas and reconstruction.
“Israel’s project in Lebanon was to eliminate Hezbollah socially, militarily, and culturally, which means eliminating a large segment of the Lebanese people through killing, displacement, and relocation in order to facilitate the annexation of Lebanon,” Qassem said.
“We thwarted the Greater Israel project, and it has been unable to control and establish itself on our land,” he added.
The Hezbollah chief said his group carried out 3,185 operations against Israel since March 2, with a daily average of 30 attacks.
“Any project to disarm Hezbollah will not succeed, and this scheme has failed,” he said.
Tensions have continued to flare along the Lebanese-Israeli border despite a recent understanding between Washington and Tehran aimed at ending their military conflict that erupted after Israel and the US launched attacks against Iran on Feb. 28.
Iranian officials have repeatedly said that ending Israeli attacks across regional fronts, particularly in Lebanon, is among the main objectives of the memorandum of understanding expected to be signed between Tehran and Washington on Friday.
Israeli officials, however, have indicated that military operations in Lebanon will continue despite the agreement, raising doubts about prospects for a de-escalation on the Lebanese front.
Israel has been waging an offensive on Lebanon since March 2 that has left thousands killed and wounded and more than 1 million displaced, according to the latest official figures.
Israel occupies areas in southern Lebanon, some for decades and others since the previous war between 2023 and 2024. During the current campaign, Israeli forces pushed more than 10 kilometers into Lebanon. Anadolu
The United Nations has, for the third consecutive year, included the Israeli armed and security forces among parties that commit grave violations against children in armed conflict, according to a report.
Seen by Anadolu on Wednesday, the yet-to-be-released report, which contains data for 2025, said: “In 2025, violations against children in armed conflict reached unprecedented levels. The UN verified 38,558 grave violations affecting 24,174 children in 2025 (15,493 boys, 7,990 girls, 691 sex unknown), the highest number of children affected by grave violations since the beginning of the mandate.”
A senior UN official said on Wednesday that government forces were “the main perpetrators of grave violations against children” for the first time in the 30-year history of the Children and Armed Conflict mandate.
Among government forces, the senior UN official said the Israeli government ranked first among countries committing grave violations against children, followed by Russia.
Noting an increase of 34% and 10%, respectively, in incidents leading to the death and injury of children compared with the previous year, the report said: “The highest numbers of grave violations were verified in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (12,445), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4,114), Nigeria (2,560), Myanmar (2,203) and Somalia (2,195).”
According to the report, in 2025, 6,266 children were killed, 7,958 were injured, 6,607 were recruited into armed groups, 8,322 were denied access to humanitarian aid, and 4,573 children were abducted.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in the report that he is “appalled by the magnitude of grave violations against children” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel.
“I am shocked by the ongoing grave violations in the Gaza Strip, and I am deeply alarmed by the escalating violence in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” he said.
He further pointed to the “staggering rise in attacks” carried out by Israeli occupiers and denounced the “persistent lack of accountability for these violations.” Anadolu
An Israeli soldier was killed and 10 others were wounded, Wednesday, in attacks targeting Israeli occupation forces in southern Lebanon.
Israeli media reported that a soldier was killed and 10 others wounded when an explosive device targeted a Hummer military vehicle in southern Lebanon.
Earlier, the Israeli army announced that several of its soldiers were wounded by the explosion of two explosive-laden drones in the same area.
Israeli Army Radio reported a force belonging to the Givati Brigade was ambushed in the Tibnin area of southern Lebanon on Wednesday morning.
According to the radio station, the first attack occurred at 6:00 AM when an explosive-laden drone exploded near a tank belonging to the force, wounding four soldiers with shrapnel. They were airlifted to hospitals for treatment.
The report added that a second explosive-laden drone targeted the evacuation vehicle that arrived at the scene to transport the wounded, wounding an additional soldier who was also airlifted for treatment.
These developments come amid ongoing clashes on the Lebanese front, where Hezbollah continues to carry out operations against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, with reports of casualties and material losses among the occupation forces as reported in the Palestine Information Center.
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