Palestinian victim sues Dutch supplier of Israeli attack dogs
A Palestinian from the occupied West Bank is suing the Dutch company that supplied the dogs Israeli soldiers used to attack him when he was a child. For more than 20 years, Four Winds K9, a company based near the city of Nijmegen, has annually provided the Israeli army with dozens of dogs trained to attack civilians... Lawmakers called on Lilian Ploumen, the Dutch trade minister... [in 2015], to halt the export of the dogs. Ploumen said she wanted to end the trade as well but saw no legal basis for a ban. Instead, Ploumen engaged with Four Winds K9, urging the company to respect the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in conflict zones. As a result, the company announced in June 2016 that it was no longer providing Israel with “biting dogs,” but only tracking hounds...