The Israeli regime’s president has been targeted by Swiss prosecutors over the Zionist forces’ genocidal war on the defenseless Palestinians trapped in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Isaac Herzog was handed criminal charges during his visit to Davos, Switzerland, Swiss prosecutors said on Friday.
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office (BA) confirmed that it had received a criminal complaint against the Israeli president, who was at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos on Thursday to discuss the Gaza war.
“The criminal complaints will now be examined in accordance with the usual procedure,” BA said in a statement, adding that it was in contact with the foreign ministry “to examine the question of the immunity of the person concerned.”
It did not say what the specific complaints were, or who had filed them.
However, a statement allegedly issued by the parties who had lodged the complaint, entitled “Legal Action Against Crimes Against Humanity” and obtained by AFP, said several unnamed individuals had filed charges with federal prosecutors and with cantonal authorities in Basel, Bern and Zurich.
The statement said the plaintiffs were seeking a criminal prosecution in parallel to a case brought before the UN’s International Court of Justice by South Africa, which accuses Israel of genocide in its air and ground offensive in Gaza.
Addressing the issue of immunity, the statement suggested that it could be lifted “in certain circumstances”, including in cases of alleged crimes against humanity, adding that “these conditions are met in this case”.
South Africa launched the emergency case at the ICJ in The Hague this month, arguing that Israel had breached the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.
South Africa demanded that the judges order Israel to halt its attacks on the Palestinian territory. Israel has denounced the case as “distorted”.
Meanwhile, the relentless Israeli regime forces attacks on Gaza have ravaged the Palestinian territory since early October.
So far, the Israeli war machine has killed a total of 24,762 Palestinians, mostly women and children and the elderly, and injured at least 62,108 others, according to the Gaza health ministry on Friday.
Palestinian Hamas resistance group launched an operation against the Israelis on October 7, in response to the Zionists’ decades-long atrocities against Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the Israeli regime official has expressed his outrage over the case lodged against him by the anti-Apartheid South African government.
Herzog argued that Palestinians’ suffering was the only way the Israeli Apartheid regime could defend itself against its enemies.
“We care. It is painful for us that our neighbors are suffering so much,” the two-faced president said in regard to the Zionist regime’s decades-long annihilation of the Palestinians and the years-long destruction of Gaza.
