Eleven victims’ families filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the perpetrators of “crimes against humanity” following the Hamas attack on October 7.
According to a press release shared with their attorney Francois Zimeray on Friday, the relatives of the victims—all civilians—have also urged Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court to look into Hamas’ actions as “war crimes” that were carried out as part of a “genocidal plan.”
It was the carrying out of a genocidal scheme that its perpetrators had planned. Zimeray, an attorney at the Paris Bar and ICC, filed a lawsuit saying, “In the face of denial in real time, the truth must be defended, and these atrocities must be known and engraved in the collective memory.”
Eleven individuals who were hurt or killed inside Israeli territory are the subject of the complaint. A number of them had attended the Nova music festival, where almost 260 people were massacred by Hamas terrorists.
Zimeray’s legal company, Zimeray & Finelle, asserts that since Hamas has “amply documented and broadcast” its activities, shocking the “universal conscience,” “the material facts cannot… be disputed.”
Zimeray requested that the prosecution “consider the advisability of issuing an international arrest warrant for the leaders of Hamas, following the example of the warrant issued for the Russian President in relation to the aggression in Ukraine.”
This comes a few days after Khan travelled to the area and made a statement from Cairo suggesting that obstructing humanitarian supplies to Gaza should be considered a war crime.
