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“The Hind Rajab Foundation: Justice in the Name of a Child and Against Israeli Impunity”
The Hind Rajab Foundation was born out of horror—and out of the need to act. It takes its name from Hind Rajab, the six-year-old Palestinian girl killed in January 2024 by the Israeli army in Gaza after spending hours trapped among the bodies of her family while pleading for help over the phone. When the ambulance sent to rescue her was bombed, the crime became a symbol of Israeli brutality and of international indifference. Amid despair and institutional silence, a group of jurists and activists decided that the only possible response was legal action. Thus the foundation was created—an organization dedicated to prosecuting those responsible for the genocide in Gaza, both before international tribunals and, above all, within national jurisdictions. Its mission is clear: to break the impunity that has long protected the perpetrators and to restore the rule of law in the face of raw power.
In this interview, Diyab Abu Jahjah, the foundation’s director, explains the strategy and moral vision that drive the Hind Rajab Foundation. Confronted with the slowness and political limits of international law, the foundation focuses on national legal systems in countries where the accused hold dual citizenship—from Europe to Latin America. That approach has already had tangible effects: it has forced governments to acknowledge their jurisdiction, unsettled Israeli ministers, and begun to erode the sense of impunity inside the Israeli military itself. Yet beyond the courts, the foundation stands as an act of global civil resistance—the assertion that even in the face of genocide, truth can be organized and can pursue its perpetrators, in the name of a little girl whose final cry for help still echoes in the world’s conscience.
