A Jewish group in Germany filed criminal charges against Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defence Minister Benny Gantz for alleged war crimes committed in August this year. The Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East filed a letter to Berlin’s Federal Court on Saturday accusing the two Israeli leaders of using disproportionate violence and unlawfully targeting Palestinian civilians during "Operation Breaking Dawn". Israel’s latest assault on the Gaza Strip in early August was justified by Lapid as a "pre-emptive counter-terror" operation against an "immediate threat" imposed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group. At least 44 Palestinians were...