Belgian-Lebanese activist to take legal action after Israeli minister’s threat

(Belga) Belgian-Lebanese activist Dyab Abou Jahjah plans to take legal action over threatening social media posts from an Israeli minister, who referred to Israel’s pager attack against Hezbollah. The threat comes shortly after Abou Jahjah and his organisation Hind Rajab Foundation filed a lawsuit against an Israeli soldier.

“Hello to our human rights activist. Watch your pager,” Amichai Chikli wrote on X on Monday afternoon in response to a post by Abou Jahjah, referring to the attack that killed at least 37 people and injured 3,000 in Lebanon on 17 September.

Chikli, Israel’s minister responsible for diaspora and combating antisemitism, added a screenshot of a newspaper article that called Abou Jahjah an “ex-Hezbollah terrorist.”

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