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| Israel's Livni skips Belgium trip amid threat of arrest |
| 2017-01-24 |
| [Al Jazeera] Israel's former foreign minister cancelled a trip to Brussels after Belgian prosecutors confirmed they wanted to question her over war crimes allegations. Tzipi Livni was expected to meet Jewish leaders in the city on Monday, but cancelled ahead of time. A front man for the event said Livni cancelled for "personal reasons" but local newspaper Le Soir said prosecutors had been hoping to question her over allegations of war crimes in the 2008-9 Israeli war in Gazoo, when she was foreign minister. "We wanted to take advantage of her visit to try to advance the investigation," a front man for Belgium's federal prosecutor Thierry Werts told the AFP news agency. Livni is named along with other political and military leaders in a complaint filed in June 2010 over alleged crimes committed during the Gazoo war. More than 1,400 Paleostinians, mostly civilians, died during the Israeli offensive between December 27, 2008 to January 18, 2009. Thirteen Israelis, including ten soldiers, also died. |
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