Category: International Law

United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres has condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli police invasion of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) compound in occupied East…

Seven members of Palestine Action in Britain have been on hunger strike for over 30 days, with their lives now at risk, demanding bail, fair trials, repeal of counter-terror laws…

On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted 5 resolutions in favor of Palestine, by an overwhelming majority. The first resolution, which called for providing assistance to Palestinian refugees, was…

United Nations — The UN General Assembly on Friday adopted five resolutions in support of Palestine, reflecting broad international consensus on refugee rights, accountability for Israeli practices, and the illegality…

National broadcasters in Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands have announced they will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) confirmed Israel’s participation. The decision has…

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding Israel’s withdrawal from all Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, and reaffirming the inalienable rights of the…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

The foreign ministers of Germany, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement on Thursday calling on Israel to respect international law and safeguard Palestinian civilians in the…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

Israeli occupation forces moved their arbitrarily-created “yellow line” hundreds of meters further into the Gaza Strip Friday, in a direct violation of the ceasefire agreement. Local media reported that the…

The Israeli cabinet’s recent debate over a proposed death penalty law marks a sharp escalation in punitive measures against Palestinian political prisoners. For the first time, Shin Bet Director David Zini…

On World Children’s Day, three leading Palestinian prisoner advocacy organizations—The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association—issued a joint…

On November 20, recognized globally as World Children’s Day, Palestine commemorates its children—those whose lives, education, and dreams have been extinguished by Israel’s ongoing war of extermination in Gaza since…

The UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee overwhelmingly adopted seven resolutions in support of Palestine, reinforcing international opposition to Israeli occupation policies and affirming Palestinian rights. Palestine’s Permanent Representative to the…

A report released this week by Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI) reveals that nearly 100 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli custody since October 7, 2023. The organization attributes this…

Quds News reports: Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza on Sunday, as Israeli forces continue to breach the ceasefire agreement, striking the war-torn enclave while…

A female citizen was killed today, Friday, by fire from an Israeli occupation attack northwest of Gaza City. Local sources reported that citizen Mayssa Jaber Al-Attar was killed as a…

The arson attack on the Hajjah Hamida Mosque in Salfit has triggered a wave of international condemnation, with the United Nations, Islamic institutions, and European governments denouncing the assault as…

The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the Swiss Foreign Ministry have all condemned the latest arson attack by illegal paramilitary Israeli…

The Israeli Knesset has advanced a bill that would give the government sweeping authority to shut down foreign media outlets it deems a “threat to national security,” without court oversight.…

The Israeli Knesset has advanced two bills authorizing the death penalty for Palestinian detainees accused of killing Israeli citizens under what the proposed law defines as “racist or hateful motives.”…

Israeli occupation authorities have been systematically torturing Palestinian detainees from Gaza since at least February 2024, according to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human…

Israeli police forcibly evicted three Palestinian families from their homes and assaulted one of the homeowners on Sunday, in the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied…

The Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday that a Turkish criminal court has issued arrest warrants for 37 individuals, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on charges of genocide and…

IsraelPalestineNews.Org– Not a Ceasefire Day 27:  Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If…

On Thursday morning, Israeli forces invaded the town of Qatanna, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, accompanied by two excavators, before demolishing two Palestinian homes. Media sources reported that occupation forces stormed…

On the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in Armed Conflict, the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority issued a stark warning: the environmental situation in Palestine has reached…

Israeli forces demolished two homes on Monday, displacing two families in the village of Al-Walaja, west of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank. Khader Al-Araj, the head of the Al-Walaja…

The spokeswoman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Tess Ingram, said that more than a million children in Gaza still need water and food, and that thousands of children…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (It is difficult to characterize the current situation in Gaza a “ceasefire,” when Israel has killed over 200 Palestinians. If Americans Knew considers…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has confirmed that the 2025 olive harvest in the occupied West Bank has been marred by the highest level…

The United Nations has confirmed that nearly nine out of ten agricultural zones in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed due to sustained Israeli military operations throughout 2025. The destruction…

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor warned Friday that Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza, operating under a “quiet and systematic” campaign of extermination despite the ongoing ceasefire. Since the ceasefire…

Israeli troops raided a number of Palestinians towns and cities in the West Bank on Friday before dawn. In Qalqilia, local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the…

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry has confirmed that Israeli occupation forces committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.…

The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Younis Al-Khatib, stressed that the humanitarian need in the Gaza Strip is no less urgent and desperate now than it was before…

The European Union has formally urged Israel to comply with the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), emphasizing its legal obligations to facilitate humanitarian aid and…

Quds News reports: The head of the Palestinian NGOs Network, Amjad al-Shawa, said Israel continues to defy international law and ignore global calls to allow unrestricted humanitarian aid into Gaza.…

Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, warned that Gaza’s education system is collapsing after two years of war, putting an entire generation of children…

The Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission reported 158 assaults against olive harvesters carried out by Israeli occupation forces and settlers across the occupied West Bank since the beginning of October…

United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres welcomed the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion reaffirming core obligations that, under international law, rest on Israel as the occupying power in the Occupied…

On Wednesday the Israeli Knesset approved one bill to annex the West Bank and impose Israeli sovereignty over it, and another to impose sovereignty over the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, east…

The International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on Wednesday finding that Israel, as the occupying power in Gaza, must facilitate and secure United Nations relief operations and ensure…

An Israeli political source confirmed that the primary objective at this stage is to complete the first phase of President Donald Trump’s Gaza “peace initiative,” adding that implementation is now…

Israeli forces demolished a citizen’s home on Wednesday afternoon, the village of Bruqin, west of Salfit in the central occupied West Bank. In the northern West Bank, occupation soldiers demolished…

The International Court of Justice is expected to issue a pivotal advisory opinion today on Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, intensifying global scrutiny of its conduct. In a…

Arab lawyers from across the region gathered in the Moroccan capital, Rabat,  to announce the formation of a unified legal coalition aimed at prosecuting Israeli war crimes committed in Gaza…

Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa said Thursday that the cost of the recovery program that the Palestinian Authority has developed for the Gaza Strip will be $67 billion. Mustafa said that…

On Thursday evening, Israeli forces killed a child, identified as Muhammad Bahjat Al-Hallaq, 11 years old, on Thursday evening, shooting him to death in the town of Ar-Reehiyya, south of…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (Day 739 of Israel’s Latest War on Gaza) Israel killed 7 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, in spite of the ceasefire; 2 others…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (Day 738 of Israel’s Latest War on Gaza) Civil defense workers and loved ones continue to dig out bodies of Palestinians that were…

The Israeli occupation forces released, on Monday evening, the second batch of detainees from “Katziot” prison in the Negev to the Gaza Strip, as part of the first phase of…

Mohammad Zaqout, the director general of hospitals in Gaza, talks to Al Jazeera about the dire healthcare situation in the enclave, saying that the hospitals need urgent medical supplies and…

Tens of thousands of internally displaced Palestinian refugees have begun to return home to north and central Gaza, only to find that their homes have been completely obliterated by the…

On Friday morning, October 10, 2025, medical teams in Gaza recovered the bodies of 35 Palestinians from multiple areas across the Strip. Among the dead were 19 civilians retrieved from…

Israeli forces detonated the apartment of a slain Palestinian man, at dawn Friday, in the town of Qatanna, northwest of occupied Jerusalem. WAFA correspondent reported that a large army force…

Al Jazeera reports that meetings between mediators and the Palestinian delegation have just concluded, with mediators now meeting the Israeli delegation to obtain final answers on unresolved issues. According to…

Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), confirmed that Gaza’s health infrastructure has suffered catastrophic damage due to Israel’s ongoing campaign of extermination since October 2023.…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has accused the Israeli occupation of conducting the largest and most deliberate campaign of media extermination in modern history, targeting journalists and press institutions during two…

Another humanitarian aid flotilla of ships trying to bring desperately-needed humanitarian aid to the starving population of Gaza has been intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters, an estimated…

As the genocide in Gaza enters its third year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has issued a stark warning about the catastrophic toll on children, describing the situation as…

Two years into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and its broader assault across Palestinian territories, prisoner advocacy institutions have released a detailed fact sheet exposing the scale of atrocities committed…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stated Monday that Gaza is home to one million children, yet not a single safe place remains for them.…

On Monday, Day 731 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli occupation forces killed at least 21 Palestinians and injured approximately 96 others across the Gaza Strip. Among the casualties were civilians…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including 2 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,610…

Human Rights Watch – October 6, 2025 – United States President Donald Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict,” announced on September 29, 2025, is no substitute for the urgent action governments…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 89 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including 6 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,603…

So apparently—and hopefully—the genocide in Gaza is “kind of” over, or to be more accurate, over-ish … although the bombs are still raining over Gaza as we speak. The bombs…

Before dawn on Thursday, the civilian vessel Mekino made history, becoming the first ship in the international “Global Sumud Flotilla” to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza this month. Just…

Israeli naval forces have intercepted at least 19 vessels from the “Global Sumud Flotilla,” a civilian convoy carrying foreign activists and humanitarian aid bound for Gaza. The attack  occurred in…

In the early hours of Wednesday, October 1, Israeli naval forces launched a coordinated assault on the Global Sumud Flotilla—a 50-vessel humanitarian convoy en route to Gaza—intercepting multiple ships in…

The Sumud (Steadfast) Flotilla is less than 200 km away from the coast of Gaza, in the largest-ever civilian-led humanitarian aid effort by sea. The 50 boats and hundreds of…

A young girl died Tuesday in the Gaza Strip due to severe malnutrition, raising the total number of famine-related deaths to 453, according to medical sources. Among the deceased are…

Israeli bombardment and blockade have left nearly half a million Palestinians trapped in Gaza City, confined to an area of less than eight square kilometers, the United Nations Relief and…

The “Global Sumud Flotilla” aiming to break Israel’s deadly blockade of Gaza to delivered urgently needed humanitarian supplies, announced on Sunday that it is now approximately 825 kilometers from the…

On Sunday morning, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked the Bedouin community of Khallet al-Sidra, east of Mikhmas near occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. The assailants blocked the community’s only…

Israeli forces detonated the home of a slain Palestinian man at dawn Saturday, in the town of Al-Qubeiba, northwest of occupied Jerusalem. Media sources reported that occupation forces detonated the…

Israeli media outlets have described the recent wave of international recognition of the State of Palestine as a major diplomatic setback, triggering political confusion and strategic uncertainty within Israel. Coverage…

On the 720th day of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, hospital sources reported the killing of 54 Palestinian citizens across the Gaza Strip. This follows a day of massacres on…

Spain and Italy have dispatched naval vessels to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian convoy delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, after multiple drone attacks targeted the fleet in international…

Following the recent wave of international recognition of the State of Palestine, senior Israeli military officials have recommended imposing targeted sanctions on top Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders, including President Mahmoud…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 36 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday; 5 aid seekers were killed. In total, Israel has killed at least…

At least ten vessels from the Gaza Sumud Flotilla were targeted by drone strikes early Wednesday, according to Al Jazeera’s correspondent aboard the convoy. Explosions were heard across the fleet,…

On the sidelines of the 2025 United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S. President Donald Trump met with leaders from Arab and Muslim-majority countries to present a post-war reconstruction…

At the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto stated that Indonesia is ready to deploy 20,000 peacekeepers in Gaza. According to Anadolu News Agency, Prabowo stressed…

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani warned, Tuesday, that the erosion of international norms in favor of brute force risks ushering in a lawless global order. He stressed…

A United Nations Commission of Inquiry stated Tuesday that the Israeli government has demonstrated a clear and consistent intent to establish permanent control over the Gaza Strip and to ensure…

Israel may face significant diplomatic fallout in the coming phase, especially if it chooses to retaliate against the growing wave of international recognition of the State of Palestine. While the…

By Bilal Gheith Kiswani, Published in Arabic by WAFA News: A growing bloc of Western nations, including the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, Portugal, Belgium, Malta, Luxembourg, Andorra, and Monaco, has…

Twenty-five Western countries have called on Israel to immediately reopen the medical corridor between Gaza and the occupied West Bank, offering financial aid, medical teams, and equipment to treat Gaza…

In their capacity as co-chairs of the High-Level International Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Palestinian Question and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia…

As of September 22, 2025, the State of Palestine is formally recognized by at least 155 of the 193 United Nations member states. This marks a decisive shift in global…

On Sunday, Canada, Britain, Australia, and Portugal, officially recognized the state of Palestine, eliciting strong reactions from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and its National Security…

At its 28th session, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress adopted a resolution to enhance the status of the State of Palestine within the organization, granting it broader privileges as…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the international community not to be deterred by Israeli backlash over the expected recognition of Palestinian statehood. In a press interview Guterres…

Thursday September 18th was the deadline set by the General Assembly for Israel to end its occupation of the territory of the State of Palestine. But the date passed with…

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini’s warning about Gaza being a battleground for disinformation comes amid mounting evidence of a coordinated campaign to obscure the scale of suffering in the devasted, starved…

In a historic session marking the 10,000th meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the United States cast its veto against a resolution calling for an immediate, unconditional, and permanent…

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has called on all UN member states to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and to ensure unrestricted access for UN humanitarian operations, including UNRWA itself,…