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Lawsuit filed against Netanyahu in US over war crimes

Wednesday 8-February-2017

Palestinian and Jewish activists have filed a lawsuit with a US court against Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials over war crimes they committed against Palestinian citizens.

According to Maariv newspaper on Tuesday 35 Palestinian and Jewish activists all American citizens are suing Netanyahu his war minister Avigdor Lieberman and former foreign minister of Israel Tzipi Livni.

The legal complaint accuses the three Israeli officials of committing war crimes against the Palestinians and funding illegal settlement construction in the West Bank.

The lawsuit also names David Friedman Trump’s ambassador-designate to Israel and his charity American Friends of Beit El Yeshiva Center as being a major fundraiser for illegal Israeli settlements.

The complaint was prepared by noted attorney in Washington Martin McMahon who has filed three other lawsuits that are currently before US courts and aim to cut off the stream of funding from the US to Israeli colonialism.

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