Why ICJ ruling against Israel’s settlement policies will be hard to ignore
Judgment challenges allies such as UK and US, which for years soft-pedalled on occupation of Palestinian territories
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Three Officers and a Philosopher: Inside the Secretive IDF Committee That Decides Who Is a Conscientious Objector
Human rights advocates say even MLK and Mahatma Gandhi would not be recognized as conscientious objectors based on the IDF’s definition of the term. Academics on the committee, activists, objectors and lawyers tell Haaretz how the military system deals with defiant refusers
Israel seeks to rewrite the laws of war
If the world accepts the way Israel now interprets the principle of proportionality, then genocide will become justified.
Smotrich Has Completed Israel’s Annexation of the West Bank
A few days ago, the constitutional revolution was completed, but no, not in Israel. Few were aware of it, but the Ben-Gvir-Smotrich-Netanyahu government has conspired to carry out two coups – one in Israel and the other in the West Bank.
Living in a tent with premature triplets: how fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers
Some women in Gaza have spent the duration of the war pregnant, but the constant bombing, death and chaos have cast a shadow over what should be a time of joy
Thousands of Palestinians missing amid Gaza’s unrelenting warfare
International Committee of the Red Cross takes between 500 and 2,500 calls a week, mostly from family members
Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say
Surgeons who worked in European and al-Aqsa hospitals describe extensive wounds caused by ‘fragmentation’ shrapnel experts say is designed to maximize casualties
UN experts declare famine has spread throughout Gaza strip
GENEVA (9 July 2024) – The recent deaths of more Palestinian children due to hunger and malnutrition leaves no doubt that famine has spread across the entire Gaza strip, a group of independent experts* said today.
Israeli forces fatally shoot 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the back near Ramallah
14-year-old Ghassan Gharib Hussein Zahran was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the central occupied West Bank yesterday. (Photo: Courtesy of the Zahran family)