Category: International Law

At least 21,000 children in Gaza have sustained injuries that led to disabilities, more than half permanent, since the beginning of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023,…

by: Medea Benjamin, Code Pink One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months. The General Assembly voted,…

Yasemin Acar describes the drone that hovered over the Sumud Freedom Flotilla at midnight (Tuesday night/Wednesday morning) as a form of psychological warfare targeting the crew. The Sumud Flotilla set…

On August 29, the U.S. State Department denied visas to approximately 80 Palestinian officials, including President Abbas, citing “national security” concerns. |CBS: Palestinian president’s visa to the U.S. revoked ahead…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has warmly welcomed the announcement by Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot, declaring Belgium’s intention to formally recognize the…

The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), the world’s leading body of experts on genocide research and law, has formally declared that Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza meets the legal…

In a powerful show of global solidarity, organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla announced the launch of a civilian-led mission to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza and confront the silence…

Report: The National Bureau for Land Defense and Resistance to Colonization reported Saturday a record surge in violence perpetrated occupation forces, and by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, affiliated with extremist figures…

The U.S. State Department has issued a directive barring Palestinian officials and diplomats, especially President Mahmoud Abbas, from attending next month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York. The decision,…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including at least 22 aid seekers. In total, Israel…

For months, Israeli hasbarists have pushed a set of “gotcha” tropes to debunk the existence of famine in Gaza. Jeremy Konyndyk of Refugees International published the following thread, showing that…

August 25, 2025 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the double compounded crime committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)…

New information has emerged about the Israeli bombing of the Nasser Hospital in a ‘double tap’ strike of two bombs spaced 15 minutes apart on Monday morning. Investigative journalist Younis…

UNICEF and senior UN officials have issued a stark denunciation of the intensifying Israeli assault on Gaza, describing the situation as a systematic campaign of annihilation that has turned childhood…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 89 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, including at least 17 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,140 aid seekers since…

Jerusalem August 26th,2025: “In the path of righteousness there is life, in walking its path there is no death” (Proverbs 12,28).     A few weeks ago, the Israeli government announced…

In a decisive move reflecting the growing weight of ethical investment standards, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, valued at over $2 trillion and recognized as the largest of its kind globally,…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued a strong condemnation on Monday following Israel’s airstrikes on the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. The attack resulted in the killing…

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has condemned the Israeli occupation’s deliberate bombing of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, which killed 21 Palestinians, including five journalists, medical…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including at least 22 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at…

In an urgent letter to the Security Council in regards to the declaration of famine in Gaza, the State of Palestine affirmed on Saturday: Saturday August 23rd marks day 687…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 71 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including at least 24 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at…

From Palestine Chronicle: Palestinian journalist Khaled al-Madhoun, who worked for Palestine TV, was killed in a direct Israeli attack while he was covering events in the Zikim area of northern…

U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced support for Israel’s planned military offensive and illegal occupation of Gaza City, claiming that Israeli captives in the enclave will only be freed “when…

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-affiliated global initiative, is expected to formally declare a famine in Gaza City in a position paper submitted to the UN Security…

Twenty-one countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Japan, and Australia, issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning Israel’s decision to approve a large-scale colonial expansion in the E1 zone,…

Updated: On Thursday, August 21st, day 685 of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, Israeli occupation attacks on the Gaza Strip killed 81 Palestinians, including 12 people who were killed by…

On Wednesday, August 20th, day 684 of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, at least 94 people have been killed in the bombing of various parts of the Gaza Strip by…

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy issued a strong condemnation on Wednesday of Israel’s colonialist expansion plan in the area known as E1, warning that its implementation would constitute a blatant…

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), reported that child malnutrition in Gaza has tripled in less than six months. He emphasized that this crisis is…

Quds News reports: Las Vegas police, working with the FBI, Homeland Security, and Nevada’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, announced the arrest of eight men on Wednesday. One of…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 47 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including at least 14 aid seekers. In total, Israel has…

Hospitals across the devastated, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip have recorded seven additional deaths over the past 24 hours, among them two children, caused by starvation and severe malnutrition. This…

Brazil has strongly condemned Israel’s expansionist “E1” illegal colonial project, warning that it poses a grave geopolitical threat to the viability of a sovereign Palestinian state by severing occupied East…

Foreign ministers from 31 Arab and Islamic nations, joined by leaders of the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the Gulf Cooperation Council, issued a joint statement condemning…

On Friday, August 15, day 679 of Israel’s ongoing slaughter of the 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and wholesale destruction of all infrastructure and homes in the Strip,…

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has sparked widespread outrage following his declaration that the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital would be “tantamount to national…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 73 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including at least 21 aid seekers. In total, Israel…

August 11, 2025 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the horrific crime committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), who assassinated six journalists,…

A well-informed source disclosed to Sky News Arabia on Monday evening that Egyptian and Qatari mediators, with Turkish involvement, are preparing a new initiative aimed at presenting a viable proposal…

The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) have jointly condemned Israel’s escalating restrictions on legal teams monitoring the conditions of Palestinian political prisoners. These…

August 10, 2025 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warns of the catastrophic consequences of Israel’s continued policy of using starvation as a weapon of war against the…

After months of threatening to assassinate the most prominent Palestinian journalist in Gaza, Anas al-Sharif, Israel on Sunday carried out its threat and killed Anas and a number of other…

On Wednesday, day day 670 of Israel’s ongoing genocide against the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces dropped bombs on tents of displaced civilians, setting the makeshift…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 82 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including at least 53 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,422 aid seekers since…

On Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers burned six residential barracks in the Arab Mleihat community, northwest of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. WAFA correspondent reported that…

Amnesty International has been working with trusted, exceptionally professional, and dedicated fieldworkers in Gaza. Despite all odds, they have continued to document violations, visit sites of strikes, collect evidence, and…

At the conclusion of the High-Level International Conference on the Peaceful Resolution of the Palestinian Question, jointly chaired by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of France, the…

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the broadest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement, today officially endorsed the grassroots organic campaign to boycott ZARA. A statement by the organization proclaimed,…

The Israeli occupation forces attacked the “Handala” ship, which was carrying international activists and desperately needed humanitarian aid, on its way to the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to break…

The so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF), a private company based in Delaware and run by a close associate of Donald Trump, set up shop in Gaza in late May with…

More than 100 international humanitarian organizations called on governments around the world to take immediate action to open all land crossings with the Gaza Strip, restore the full flow of…

On Tuesday, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa declared that humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza is not a discretionary measure, but a vital lifeline, “the difference between life…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 132 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including at least 94 aid seekers. Israel has killed over 1,021 aid seekers…

From DropSite News: Story by Zaki Awadallah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA—Like hundreds of other young men, Haitham al-Batniji, 28, arrived at the path leading to a so-called…

In a landmark decision within the European Union, Slovenia has officially barred Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entering its territory. The move, announced…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 93 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, including aid-seekers. For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Wednesday, go…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has sounded the alarm over a surge in child malnutrition in Gaza, warning that the rate of acute malnutrition…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that “people in Gaza continue to risk their lives to obtain sufficient food and other necessities allowed into…

South Africa’s Ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusi Madonsela, condemned Israel’s continued practices that perpetuate occupation and genocide in the Gaza Strip, despite advisory opinions and provisional measures issued by the…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) estimated on Tuesday that Israel, the occupying power, has been killing every day since October 7, 2023, the equivalent…

Report from ‘The Cradle’ news agency: The condition of Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital who was abducted by Israeli forces at the end of…

July 14, 2025 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) In a serious and compound crime, Israeli settler militias killed two Palestinian civilians, one of them held U.S. citizenship,…

All three members of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry tasked with investigating human rights violations in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories have resigned, citing the need for a…

Nearly 60 members of Parliament from the British Labour Party have signed a public letter calling on the UK government to immediately recognize the State of Palestine. The lawmakers also…

Freedom Flotilla: FFC’s Handala begins its journey to Gaza to break the blockade, For the Children of Gaza FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: July 13, 2025 Contact: Hay Sha Wiya, Press…

Israel is advancing plans to construct 2,339 illegal colonialist units across the northern, central, and southern regions of the occupied West Bank, a statement issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization’s…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israel killed at least 95 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including at least X aid-seekers. In addition, two Palestinians in the West Bank,…

Thousands of Palestinian infants in Gaza are facing life-threatening malnutrition, warned UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Monday, emphasizing that “every minute counts in saving lives.” Russell described the deteriorating…

United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric announced Monday that Israeli authorities, the occupying power, have obstructed critical humanitarian initiatives in Gaza, rejecting three out of eight UN relief missions just one…

A controversial proposal, to say the least, reviewed by Reuters outlines a $2 billion plan to build large-scale “Humanitarian Transit Areas” in Gaza and potentially beyond its borders. The plan,…

IsraelPalestineNews: Compilation of news reports – IAK staff:  Israel killed at least 78 people in strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to medical sources. Among the dead were several…

Dozens of protests were held worldwide on Saturday and throughout the week — many of them targeting the companies profiting from and manufacturing weapons for the ongoing Israeli genocide in…

The UN Special Rapporteur has published a new report on the economics of occupation, and how the companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine are now increasing their…

Early Friday morning, at least 30 Palestinian families were forcibly displaced from the Arab al-Mleihat Bedouin community, situated at the end of the Mu’arrajat road northwest of Jericho, in the…

Palestinian political prisoners, including a significant number of minors, held in Israeli detention facilities, notably Megiddo Prison, face deliberate policies imposed by the Israel Prison Service that have led to…

On Wednesday, Israel’s Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, called for the annexation of the occupied West Bank during a meeting with the settler leader, Yossi Dagan, the head of the…

There were no deliberations. No votes. No pretense of legality. The bombing campaign in Iran bulldozed through international norms without so much as a rhetorical nod to diplomacy.

From the Quds News Network: The International Criminal Court (ICC) said it was hit by a “sophisticated and targeted” cyberattack late last week. In a statement released Monday, the ICC…

The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee has passed a resolution calling for an end to the Israeli apartheid system imposed on the indigenous Palestinian population in Israel, the…

June 27, 2025 – Doctors Without Borders The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza that was launched one month ago is forcing Palestinians to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minuscule amounts of…

In a new report, three human rights organizations that advocate for the rights of Palestinians kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces detailed the horrific conditions and brutal torture carried…

Dozens of Israeli colonizers invaded the northern West Bank City of Nablus city, and stormed Joseph’s Tomb, on Friday morning, sparking confrontations. Additionally, illegal settlers assaulted a Palestinian woman near…

The ongoing assaults and violations and by groups of fanatic illegal paramilitary colonizers in the occupied West Bank have escalated further, now encompassing the obstruction of emergency medical services. This…

June 26, 2025 United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff:  At least 90 Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks Tuesday, 56 of whom were aid-seekers. For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on…

A newly released analysis hosted on the Harvard Dataverse has brought troubling clarity to Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. The report, authored by Israeli academic Yaakov Garb, estimates that nearly 377,000 Palestinians…

United Nations June 24, 2025 – At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch scraps of food from controversial new aid hubs in…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff:  At least 41 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip since dawn today, according to hospital sources in the enclave speaking to Al…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Saturday that the plight of Palestinian refugees remains “the world’s longest-running unresolved refugee crisis,” calling on the…

From Quds News: Global shipping giant Maersk has temporarily stopped operations at Israeli-occupied Haifa port due to growing security threats tied to the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict. The Danish company made…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 92 people were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian health officials say, including at least 16 aid-seekers. In…

On Thursday, Israeli authorities forced Palestinian citizens to demolish their homes in Beit Hanina town, north of Jerusalem. Occupation bulldozers also demolished a citizen’s home in the village of Einabus,…

As the people of Gaza face the 21st month of daily bombing, shelling, starvation and siege by Israeli forces, hundreds of thousands of people in cities around the world held…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Bodies of at least 103 Palestinians were brought to hospitals in Gaza in the last 24 hours, while 427 people were injured, according…

The Israeli military launched a major attack, launching over 300 airstrikes in Iran on Thursday night. Iran, Israel, Iraq, and Jordan have announced the closure of their airspace until further…

The UN General Assembly is set to vote on Thursday on a resolution calling for an immediate, unconditional, and lasting ceasefire in Gaza. This follows the UN Security Council’s failure…

From Quds News: In a bold move to challenge Israel’s suffocating blockade on Gaza, tens of thousands of participants from around the world are preparing to join the “March of…

As it kills Gazans, Israel kidnaps int’l humanitarians including Greta Thunberg – War on Gaza Day 611 – IsraelPalestineNews.org Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 108 Palestinian…

The humanitarian vessel Madeleine arrived at Israel’s Ashdod port on Monday evening after being intercepted by Israeli forces, preventing it from delivering urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israeli authorities…