Rights Activists Issue ‘Arrest Warrants’ for Olmert, Livni and Barak

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Rights activists issue ‘arrest warrants’ for Olmert, Livni and Barak

Anonymous self-described Israeli human rights activists have set up a Web site detailing the alleged war crimes committed by senior government officials and officers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the Israeli Haaretz daily reported on Wednesday.

No known human rights organization is behind the site, whose founders refuse to give their names, Haaretz said. The Web site, www.wanted.org.il, includes “arrest orders,” complete with pictures and personal details, for Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, former air force commander Eliezer Shkedy, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and his two predecessors, Dan Halutz and Moshe Ya’alon, along with others. It also explains how to inform the International Criminal Court in The Hague of when the “suspects” are outside Israel, and hence vulnerable to arrest, Haaretz noted. The “arrest order” for Barak, for instance, states: “On Dec. 27, 2008, the suspect ordered an aerial assault on all of Gaza’s population centers. The assault included hundreds of sorties by fighter jets that dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on residential areas of Gaza, which led to the deaths of 1,200 people -- men, women and children. Some 5,300 people were wounded and hundreds of thousands became refugees. On Dec. 10, 2008, a formal complaint was filed against Ehud Barak to the International Criminal Court in The Hague ... on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity because of the siege of Gaza.”

22.01.2009

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