FORMER Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni faced a grilling by Belgian police yesterday on her arrival in Brussels over the 2008-2009 Christmas bombing of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Police confirmed they would question the politician over the deaths of some 1,400 civilians in the brutal Operation Cast Lead.

Ms Livni infamously boasted: “We will have no pity” as the Israeli air force bombed schools, hospitals and homes. She was due to speak at a European Parliament event yesterday.

The arrest warrant was the result of a complaint filed in June 2010 by a group of Palestinian victims with the Federal Prosecutor against Israeli officials.

The complainants wrote to the Federal Prosecutor last week advising of Ms Livni’s imminent visit and demanding her arrest.