Hind Rajab's Alleged Killer Is in the United States. HRF Demands His Arrest.October 19th 2026Sean Glass commanded the "Vampire Empire" Company implicated in the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab, members of her family, and the medics sent to rescue them. HRF's investigation places him and his troops in the direct vicinity of Hind's vehicle during the killing.
HRF alleges that he most likely gave the order to open fire. His alleged responsibility extends across Gaza: attacks on Al-Shifa Hospital, the destruction of the UNRWA headquarters, the razing of entire neighbourhoods, and the destruction of the Rafah Crossing-devastation he publicly celebrated.
Today, Glass walks free in the United States. HRF demands that the U.S. authorities arrest him and bring him to justice.
19 October 2026 - Brussels, Belgium/United States - The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed an urgent request with the U.S. Department of Justice, demanding the immediate investigation, arrest, and prosecution of Sean Glass, currently present in the United States. Glass commanded the 'Vampire Empire' Company of the 52nd Armored Battalion (401st Armored Brigade) in Gaza.
He is accused of war crimes under the U.S. War Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. §2441, and genocide under the U.S. Genocide Statute, 18 U.S.C. §1091, including willful killing, torture and inhuman treatment, unlawful transfer, and the extensive and wanton destruction of property not justified by any military necessity.
Glass is not in hiding. He is now present in the U.S., and has spent two years documenting his own crimes in public. On Instagram, in interviews, and in a self-published book, he has proudly recounted the destruction of hospitals, UN buildings, entire neighborhoods, and the Rafah Crossing, the lifeline on which Palestinian survival depended.
Celebrating 100 days of the war, he described the campaign as a "war of existence of the eternal people" and urged his troops to "attack, attack till victory." Marking seven years in the army, he wrote there was "no more significant way to celebrate" than in Al-Shifa, "the terror nest," posting side-by-side satellite images of Al-Shifa Medical Complex before and after his forces destroyed it.
In his farewell speech to his company, he boasted that they had "destroyed every part to where we were asked to go, in all areas of the Gaza Strip," and described emptying the Z
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