IDF Soldier Flees Brazil Amid Gaza War Crimes Investigation

[C0RI0LANUS]

An Israeli soldier accused of committing war crimes in Gaza has fled Brazil where he was vacationing when the case was brought against him in the South American country.

The unidentified soldier is accused of participating in the mass demolition of civilian homes in Gaza amid Israel's war against Hamas in the Palestinian enclave.


An Israeli border police officer stands guard as municipality workers demolish a Palestinian house. (Image by Sebastian Scheiner / AP Photo.)


Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid lambasted the need for a soldier to flee a country where they were vacationing in the dark of night to evade investigation as "a huge political failure."

"How did we get to the point where the Palestinians are better than the Israeli government in the international arena?" he asked on X.


Palestinians mourning over the body of a relative killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza, 6 Jan 2025. (Photo: Dawoud Abu Alkas / Reuters)

Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that a total of 45,854 combatants and civilians have been killed and 109,139 wounded, injured, or maimed in Israel’s Nakba against the Palestinians following the 7 Oct 2023 surprise attack which resulted in 1,269 Israelis deaths and 250 captives taken for a prisoner swap.

On 21 Nov 2024, the ICC at the Hague issued an international arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes. Similarly, on 17 Mar 2023 the ICC had issued a warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

These indictments are merely allegations. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Sources:

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/01/06/soldier-flees-Brazil/8791736147621/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/6/live-israel-pounds-gaza-as-ceasefire-talks-with-hamas-gains-momentum?update=3425712

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and



His future cellmate:

[malaise]

1. The former president of Guyana called for Israel to be expelled

from the UN on the weekend for war crimes and genocide.

He was speaking at the funeral of the former president of Suriname Bouterse

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250104-thousands-line-suriname-streets-in-homage-to-late-dictator-bouterse

[C0RI0LANUS]

2. Happy New Year, malaise, and thank you for the information.

That would be a "collective punishment" that would include the Israeli left, but I understand the anger and the sentiment.


Stav Shaffir is head of the Israeli Green Party and foe of "Crime Minister" Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Mosby]

3. Obvious example of antisemitism.

No other countries soldiers are treated like this.

This ancient bigotry is starting to tear the world apart.

[Mosby]

4. scholasticide

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By a margin of 428 to 88, the American Historical Association has voted to condemn the Israeli scholasticide in Gaza.

More double standards, complete with a made up concept only applied to the Jewish state. Not a word in the statement about UNWRA and their connections to Hamas.

Eta - the three Ds of Antisemitism 2.0

[Eko]

5. Not even close to being true.

HSI Washington, D.C. investigation leads to war crimes charges for 4 individuals affiliated with the Russian military
WASHINGTON – Four Russia-affiliated military personnel have been charged with war crimes following an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington D.C. field office, FBI’s Washington, D.C. field office, HSI’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center, and FBI’s International Human Rights Unit. The charges, which are the first to be filed against Russia-affiliated personnel following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, were unsealed Dec. 6, at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

Russia-affiliated individuals Suren Seiranovich Mkrtchyan, Dmitry Budnik, Valerii LNU (last name unknown), and Nazar LNU were each charged with unlawfully detaining a U.S. national in the context of the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The alleged perpetrators are accused of interrogating, severely beating and torturing the victim. They also allegedly threatened to kill the victim and conducted a mock execution.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-washington-dc-investigation-leads-war-crimes-charges-4-individuals-affiliated

[Mosby]

6. There was a specific victim and he was an American.

Try again.

[Eko]

7. Why? You will just keep moving the goalposts.

[Mosby]

10. Russia is a country led by a dictator

And they invaded another sovereign nation.

Israel is trying to defend itself from terrorists who have embedded themselves in ALL the surrounding nations.

The only goalposts are western civilization.

[Eko]

11. Couldnt help it could ya?

Just had to move the goalposts again.

[Eko]

13. You moved them multiple times.

And are now pleased with yourself for having done so. I'll have to remember that there is no way to have a good faith discussion with you in the future.

[Eko]

15. If you are going to knowingly move the goalposts multiple times

and be pleased about it then I get to call you out for it.

[Rob H.]

8. If they don't want to be pursued for committing war crimes

maybe they should stop filming videos of themselves committing them and then uploading them to TikTok and YouTube, which other countries' soldiers are smart enough not to do, afaik.

[ZRB]

16. "...taken for a prisoner swap."

Seriously? That's some brilliant rewriting of history there. I'd like to see how the genital-slicing of music festival attendees fits into that logic. What a complete and utter joke.