Switzerland filed criminal charges against Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Thursday, Swiss news agency Keystone-ATS reported.

These complaints will be dealt with according to the normal procedure, the General Prosecutor’s Office (MPC) told the Swiss news agency.

The MPC also said it had been in contact with the Swiss Foreign Ministry to look into the issue of the Israeli president’s immunity, but did not specify what exactly the complaints were about.

The prosecutor’s office did not immediately respond to AFP’s request.

The complaints were filed by the group Legal Action Against Crimes Against Humanity, according to Keystone-ATS.

Citing a press release, the Swiss Press Agency said the group is demanding a criminal investigation in Switzerland, parallel to the genocide charges against the Palestinian people in Gaza brought by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice. of Justice (ICJ).

In recent days, hearings have taken place at the United Nations’ top court, based in The Hague, where Pretoria appealed last month, arguing that Israel is violating the UN Genocide Convention, signed in 1948 after the Holocaust.

South Africa wants judges to order Israel to “immediately” end the military campaign launched in the Gaza Strip after an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israeli territory on October 7, which killed around 1,140 people, according to an AFP count based on Israeli data.

About 250 people were abducted and taken to Gaza during the attack, around a hundred of whom were released after a ceasefire in late November.

In response, Israel vowed to “destroy” Hamas, which is in power in the Gaza Strip, and launched an offensive on Palestinian territory that has killed at least 24,620 people, mostly women, teenagers and children, according to the latest ministry figures. Health in Hamas.