Police have questioned two Israeli citizens attending Tomorrowland Festival over accusations of “war crimes” in Gaza.
According to reports from outlets including The Guardian, authorities in Belgium said that they briefly held two people from Israel and questioned them after they attended the electronic music festival last week.
Their being brought in by authorities came after pro-Palestine groups spotted them at the music event and accused them of war crimes in Gaza.
Prosecutors claimed that they had been sent legal complaints which alleged that two soldiers behind “serious violations of international humanitarian law” in Gaza had been seen at the festival.
Their office then asked police to locate the two people and bring them in for questioning.
After the interviews, the two people were released, and the office clarified that it would be sharing “no further information” into the investigation at this stage. The two men brought in for questioning have not been named.
As shared by The Guardian, a Belgian pro-Palestine organisation called the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) came forward last week saying that it had identified two Israeli soldiers it accuses of being “responsible for grave international crimes” in Gaza, in attendance at Tomorrowland 2025.
It also accused a group of Israeli men of waving a flag for the Givati Brigade – an Israeli military unit involved in the fighting in the Palestinian territory – at the festival, and filed a complaint with prosecutors. This move was made in association with a lawyers’ group that specialises in human rights violations called Global Legal Action Network.
Tomorrowland 2025 took place over the weekend, despite doubt surrounding the festival after it was ravaged by a fire that destroyed its main stage. The blaze took place on Wednesday (July 16), before the 70,000 festivalgoers arrived on the site, but around 1,000 employees were present at the time.
No injuries were reported as a result of the fire, and Tomorrowland announced that the festival would go ahead as planned – assembling an alternative main stage with help from Metallica.
Shortly after, it was reported that a 35-year-old woman had died after becoming unwell at the festival grounds on Friday night (July 18). Despite emergency services managing to resuscitate her, she later passed away in hospital.
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