'Taxpayers Against Genocide' files legal complaint against US government

A group of US citizens, many of whom were directly impacted by Israel's 19-month-long war on Gaza, have filed a legal complaint in Washington, DC in the hopes of eventually seeing the US referred to the International Criminal Court. 

The group, Taxpayers Against Genocide, was joined by the National Lawyers Guild International Committee in filing the 133-page complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

They charge the Trump and Biden administrations with "complicity in genocide in Gaza," a statement released by the group on Wednesday said. 

"The lawsuit includes notarised affidavits by Palestinian-American plaintiffs who have lost loved ones to the US-funded genocide. One plaintiff, Monadel Herzallah, has lost 43 family members," it added. 

The US "has constructed legal shields at home that deny victims even the chance to seek redress," and it "cannot continue to finance, arm, and politically cover for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide abroad while remaining immune from international scrutiny," lead attorney Huwaida Arraf said in the statement.

"This petition is a call for accountability where none has yet been possible."