The first case to be investigted is that of the 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps, committed by Israeli forces whilst Ariel Sharon was defence minister. It is also hoped that the Belgian law could be used to prosecute other people suspected of human rights abuses.
Hanny Megally, of Human Rights Watch. said "This decision is a huge victory not only for the victims of the Sabra and Shatilla massacres but for all atrocity victims who have put their hopes in the Belgian justice system,...There is abundant evidence that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed in the Sabra and Shatilla massacre, but not a single individual has been brought to justice."


Human Rights watch backgrounder on the Belgian “Anti-Atrocity” Law
 http://hrw.org/campaigns/icc/belgium-qna.pdf