The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor held the Dutch government directly legally responsible for its "complicity in the crimes" committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in the Gaza Strip, due to its continued direct and indirect support for the Israeli war machine.

The Observatory said in a press release that the Netherlands continues to export "military dogs" to the Israeli occupation army and other Israeli security agencies, despite their use as a tool for systematic torture and intimidation of Palestinians, as part of the Israeli system based on imposing comprehensive domination over them, stripping them of their human dignity, and completely destroying their existence.

The Observatory stated that it followed with great concern the information revealed by the Center for Research on Multinational Enterprises (SOMO) regarding Dutch companies obtaining veterinary certificates to export 110 dogs to Israel during the period between October 2023 and February 2025. One hundred of these certificates were allocated to Four Winds K9, a dog training center located in the Dutch village of Geven, which, according to the research center, has a long record of exporting dogs to Israel.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor emphasized that the close coordination between Israeli state institutions, Dutch legal entities, and the company Four Winds K9 reveals a transnational network of deliberate complicity that actively feeds Israel's killing and repression machine and ensures the company's continued vital role in supplying units directly implicated in serious violations of international law.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor confirmed that its field team documented numerous crimes in which the occupation forces used dogs to directly attack Palestinian civilians, including children, the elderly, and the sick. They also documented the desecration of corpses, terrorizing families, and torturing Palestinian detainees, including horrific rapes using dogs. The report noted that Israeli forces systematically use large military dogs during their military attacks in the Gaza Strip, particularly during raids on homes, hospitals, and shelters, as well as during incursions into the West Bank.

He pointed out that his field team had documented the Israeli forces' use of dogs to attack and terrorize children and women inside homes and shelters, particularly during ground military attacks in Gaza City, the north, and Khan Yunis, as part of a systematic policy aimed at spreading terror and intimidation among the civilian population.

He explained, based on what his field team documented, that the most horrific forms of the use of military dogs appeared in targeting Palestinian prisoners and detainees without any restrictions or deterrent, as the horrific nature of these violations reached the point of using these dogs to carry out brutal rape crimes against prisoners and detainees, in front of other detainees and jailers, as part of a systematic and deliberate pattern of sexual violence, which also included forced nudity, sexual harassment, threats of rape, and the use of sharp objects and inserting them into sensitive areas of the bodies of prisoners and detainees, with the intent of humiliating and physically and psychologically abusing them.

He recalled the incident of the attack on the elderly woman, Dawlat al-Tanani (60 years old), who was mauled by an Israeli military dog in her home on May 14, 2024, in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stated that it had received testimonies about the Israeli army’s use of military dogs to raid hospitals. The Observatory quoted a woman who requested anonymity as saying: “Israeli forces stormed our home, and as soon as we opened the door, the soldiers released a dog into the apartment. It attacked my elderly husband, biting him in the chest, stomach, and leg, causing him to bleed profusely, without the soldiers taking any action.” In this regard, he referred to the testimony of Dr. Islam Sawali, last February, who confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces used dogs to storm Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis at the time, to terrorize medical staff and displaced persons and force them to evacuate.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor condemned the role of companies supplying Israel with weapons and military equipment, including Dutch companies, stressing that international law, including the Statute of the International Criminal Court and customary international law, particularly the principle of "aiding and abetting," as well as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, legally oblige companies to cease any cooperation or support that might facilitate or enable the commission of any violations of international law.