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What do genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity mean?

June 26, 2026 admin

“Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, ‌resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank,” an independent U.N. inquiry said on Tuesday (June 23, 2026). International criminal law, as codified in the Rome Statute of the Internation Criminal Court (ICC) and customary…

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Israeli strikes on Gaza City kill at least 14 as some countries move to recognise Palestinian state

September 20, 2025 admin

Israeli strikes killed at least 14 people overnight in Gaza City, said health officials, as Israel ramps up its offensive there and urges Palestinians to leave. The strikes come as Western countries are increasingly fed up with the intensifying war in Gaza, with some moving to recognise Palestinian statehood at the gathering of world leaders…

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Israel warfare methods ‘consistent with genocide’: U.N. committee

November 14, 2024 admin

Palestinians gather to receive aid, including food supplies provided by World Food Program, outside a United Nations distribution center, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on August 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a special U.N. committee said Thursday…

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Bereaved and destitute: Gazans a year after October 7

September 23, 2024 admin

In a year of war between Israel and Hamas, the people of Gaza have lost nearly everything: their loved ones, their homes, their careers and their dreams. AFP spoke to a student, a paramedic and a former civil servant in Gaza, to hear how the conflict has destroyed their lives. The student stopped in his…

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