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BRUSSELS, June 23 (UPI) -- An indictment was filed Wednesday in Belgium charging several former top Israeli officials with war crimes involving the 2009 invasion of Gaza.
The defendants include Ehud Olmert, who was prime minister at the time, Ehud Barak, a former prime minister who was minister of defense, and Tzipi Livni, who was foreign minister, the Jerusalem Post reported citing Hungarian news agency MTI. The charges were filed by two Belgian lawyers on behalf of a group of Palestinians, one of them a Belgian citizen.
Belgium has a law of universal jurisdiction that allows charges to be brought for actions anywhere in the world. But the alleged crime must involve a Belgian citizen, Haaretz reported.
In 2001 charges were brought in Belgium against Ariel Sharon, who was then Israeli prime minister, and members of the Christian Militia in Lebanon for the massacres in the Shatila and Sabra camps in 1982, when Sharon was defense minister.
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