War Crimes

A senior member of Hamas has demanded that the Palestinian president resign for supporting the postponement of a UN vote which could have led to the prosecution of Israel...

Israel's ambassador to the United States argues that a United Nations war crimes investigation poses a genocidal threat to Jews comparable to the Nazi Holocaust. "Recognizing the murder of...

Quds Press: Hebrew sources revealed that the Israeli government is currently mulling the formation of a committee to investigate the war that Israel had launched on Gaza 9 months...

The Palestinians and their allies have called for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to become involved in a row over Gaza war crimes investigations. The proposal was contained in a...

The President of the Popular Committee Against Siege (PCAS), MP Jamal El Khoudary, invited the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Kouchner, to visit the besieged Gaza Strip via...

The Arab League is currently intensifying its efforts to prosecute the Israelis who committed war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and a delegation from the League's General...

A Palestinian human rights official has accused the Israeli government of committing multiple crimes during its war on the Gaza Strip last winter, as it deliberately killed Palestinians after...

MP Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, called for the indictment of Israeli officials before international courts, "because they have committed war crimes during the aggression...

A European rights association filed a case for the arrest of Israeli President, Shimon Peres, upon his arrival in Switzerland on Monday (28.03.2011) on the grounds that he is...

An independent United Nations expert today urged Israel to prevent further rights violations in East Jerusalem, warning that population transfers in or from occupied territory are war crimes under...

Two Belgian lawyers, working on behalf of a group of Palestinians, plan to charge 14 Israeli politicians, including Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, Tzipi Livni and Matan Vilnai, for crimes...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) ended its bureau meeting in the Gaza Strip yesterday, 30 September, with a declaration affirming that Israeli actions in the...

A senior member of the PLO Executive Committee has welcomed the conclusions and recommendations of the UN's Human Rights Council report on Israel. Dr. Hanan Ashrawi described it as...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called for the international prosecution of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad for the commission of war crimes. Pillay reiterated...

One hundred Palestinian non-governmental organizations have considered U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the Palestinian territories scheduled in a week "meaningless as long as the U.S. administration does not...

Dozens of nations at the UN have backed a non-binding resolution calling for independent inquiries by Israel and the Palestinians into war crimes in Gaza. The UN General Assembly...

The US pledged on Tuesday to help Israel combat the Goldstone report documents alleged war crimes committed during the attack on Gaza last winter. This offer to "fight the...

Amir Peretz, Member of the Israeli Knesset, has evaded arrest in the UK, after activists managed to secure an arrest warrant for suspected war crimes committed in the 2006...

Today, 6 October 2011, former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni visited the United Kingdom . Ms. Livni was Foreign Minister during Israel's 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009...

The former director of Israel's Shabak internal security agency has been forced to flee from Denmark following a formal complaint accusing him of committing crimes of torture and brutality...

By Ismail Haniyeh That the elected government in Gaza still enjoys the popular support of its people is a mark of the failure of Israel's criminal blockade and war...

Following Richard Goldstone's rather odd op-ed piece in the Washington Post, there is now a frantic campaign to overturn the UN's "Goldstone Report" into Israel's 2008/9 war against the...

As Republicans seeking the party's nomination for the next US presidential election fall over themselves to prove how Israel-friendly they are to "Republican Jewish leaders", the country closest to...

"The establishment of the Court is a gift of hope to future generations, and a giant step forward in the march towards universal human rights and the rule of...