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<\/a><\/p>\nIsraeli security forces prevent protesters from Tsav 9, or known as Order 9 movement, from crossing the border checkpoint with the goal of blocking aid shipments from getting into the Gaza, in Kerem Shalom, Israel, Thursday, March 7, 2024. (MARCUS YAM \/ LOS ANGELES TIMES)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The arrest warrants were issued in July against Nili Kupfer-Naouri, the president of the organization Israel Is Forever, and Rachel Touitou, an activist with the organization Tsav 9, a right-wing Israeli group that was sanctioned by the United States in June 2024 for destroying humanitarian aid for Gaza.<\/p>\n
The two have been charged with \u201ccomplicity in genocide\u201d and \u201cpublic and direct incitement to genocide,\u201d the French newspaper Le Monde reported on Monday. They are accused of trying to block humanitarian aid trucks from entering Gaza between January and November 2024 and in May 2025.<\/p>\n
An array of activists, including military reservists and family members of some hostages, sought to block the aid trucks from entering Gaza on the theory that helping Gazans would alleviate pressure on Hamas.<\/p>\n
In an interview with i24 News, Kupfer-Naouri said, \u201cI blocked trucks that were supplying Hamas. If I had to do it again, I would do it again.\u201d (Israel accused Hamas of stealing aid shipments to Gaza during the conflict.)<\/p>\n
The warrants are notable because they represent a success by advocacy organizations seeking to hold Israelis responsible for what they say are war crimes. The warrants stemmed from a complaint made last year by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights and the groups Al-Mezan and Al-Haq, which were all sanctioned by the United States in September for having \u201cdirectly engaged in efforts by the International Criminal Court to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel\u2019s consent.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a joint statement with the French Jewish Union for Peace, which joined the complaint, the groups called the arrest warrant against Kupfer-Naouri \u201ca historic step forward in the fight against impunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The warrants call for Kupfer-Naouri and Touitou, who were both born in France and live in Israel, to appear before an investigating judge, but not for their detention, according to the French news agency AFP.<\/p>\n
Touitou condemned the arrest warrant in a post on X Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf peacefully demonstrating with an Israeli flag against a terrorist organization seizing humanitarian aid, diverting it, and reselling it at exorbitant prices to Gazans is a crime\u2014then there\u2019s no need to look down on the Mullahs, France is just like Iran!,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI will always fight to defend the truth, my people, and my country \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an interview posted on X last month, Kupfer-Naouri called the investigation an \u201cantisemitic delusion,\u201d adding, \u201cI will no longer be able to set foot in France because I have no intention of going to French jails, neither in police custody, nor anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kupfer-Naouri said the investigation could set a \u201cvery dangerous precedent\u201d for French-Israeli soldiers in the Israeli military who return home to France.<\/p>\n
Some Israeli soldiers traveling abroad have faced war crime inquiries for their actions in Gaza. Over the summer, some Canadian IDF soldiers also reported that they feared returning home after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced it had opened an investigation into crimes committed by Canadians during the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n