Hamas authorities should end the systematic detention, torture, and execution of political opponents and suspected Israeli collaborators in the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Several hundred demonstrated in Tel Aviv to protest the killing of a Palestinian activist in the West Bank. Organizers warned, “The occupying forces have recently escalated their attacks.”
A local protester, Bassem Ibrahim Abu-Rahma, was killed after being hit by a tear gas canister during a demonstration against the separation wall in the West Bank village of Bilin.
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that former Israeli security chief Avraham Dichter cannot be sued in the US by survivors of a 2002 Israeli bombing that targeted a Hamas leader in Gaza.
Israel will not comply with a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigation into possible war crimes that were committed during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, officials said.
The State of Palestine filed a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) challenging the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a breach of international diplomatic law. In support of its claim, Palestine directed the ICJ to multiple UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions affirming the special international regime that applies to Jerusalem and calling on member states to refrain from recognizing Jerusalem as Israeli territory. Palestine also argued that establishment of an embassy to Israel in Jerusalem violates provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations governing activities in the "receiving state." (Photo: Ma'an News Agency)
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that he expects no serious pressure from Washington—as Israel’s ultra-right pledged more provocative marches in Arab towns.
Israel unlawfully and extensively used white phosphorous munitions in the Gaza offensive, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch, calling it “neither incidental nor accidental.”
The Israel Defense Forces announced it will conduct an internal investigation into mounting reports that Israeli soldiers committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip operation.
A group of the world’s top war crimes investigators—backed by Amnesty International—urged the UN to launch an inquiry into alleged violations of the laws of war during the recent Gaza conflict.
US peace activist Tristan Anderson, of Oakland, Calif., was critically wounded when he was struck in the head by a tear-gas cannister launched by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, March 13. Four Palestinians… Read moreUS peace activist critically injured on West Bank
Israel accelerated its “illegal annexation” of East Jerusalem last year through municipal and security policies that discriminate against Palestinian residents, an internal EU report charges.
