00:00No, Dutch police have not arrested Israelis for war crimes.
00:07Photos shared on social media alleged that Israeli military personnel have been arrested
00:12by Dutch police in the Netherlands on charges related to war crimes.
00:16One image shows a police officer holding a woman by the arm.
00:19Captions shared alongside the photo states Dutch police hold in Israeli officer Jukal Yulita
00:25while she vacationed in Europe. User states she was accused of war crimes in Rafa.
00:29Another photo claims to show Dutch police arresting Israeli Major General Shitan Shao,
00:34commander of the Armored Corps, reportedly on the same charges.
00:38However, in both cases, the pictures show the arrest of other people and in other countries.
00:43The image of the woman being arrested in fact dates back to August 2016.
00:48A reverse image search found the image was shared by British tabloid The Daily Mail
00:53in an article on partygoers being arrested by police in Newcastle.
00:57Meanwhile, a reverse image search of the second picture shows it dates to September 2022
01:03and illustrates the arrest of an Irish gangster known as Johnny Cash during a raid in Spain.
01:08The Dutch Public Persecution Service confirmed here a verify that no Israeli nationals had been
01:13arrested by Dutch police for war crimes.
01:15In February this year, however, two Israeli soldiers who were on holiday in the Netherlands
01:19returned to Israel for fear of persecution.
01:22The Hind Rajab Foundation wanted to bring a lawsuit in the Netherlands against one of
01:26the men who allegedly committed war crimes in Gaza.
01:29The foundation also lodged a complaint over the presence of two Israeli soldiers
01:33suspected of committing war crimes in Gaza at Tomorrowland.
01:36The two were detained and questioned by police after which Belgium's Federal Public Prosecutor's
01:41Office decided to refer the files to the International Criminal Court.
01:45The same photo of the young woman, who was falsely identified as Jukal Yulita, was incorrectly used
01:51in a social media post about the arrest of these two soldiers in Belgium, which garnered 650,000 views.
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