Israeli forces were accused Tuesday of the war crime of firing white phosphorus artillery munitions over populated areas of southern Lebanon as Israel escalates an assault on its northern neighbor that has killed or wounded thousands of people. Video footage published...
Critics Say IDF Shutdown of Al Jazeera’s West Bank Bureau Is ‘Aimed at Erasing the Truth’
Press freedom advocates accused Israel of "trying to erase the truth" after heavily armed soldiers raided Al Jazeera's bureau in the West Bank of Palestine early Sunday morning and ordered the outlet – which has been the world's sole media window on the Gaza genocide...
‘There Is No Safety for Us’: West Bank Kids Under Growing Assault by Israeli Forces
An average of five children per day have been killed or wounded by Israeli occupation forces and settler-colonists in the West Bank of Palestine, according to a report published Tuesday by Save the Children, which sounded the alarm on what it called a "significant...
‘Obvious Conflict of Interest’: Report Reveals 50+ US Lawmakers Hold Military Stocks
At least 50 U.S. lawmakers or members of their households are financially invested in companies that make military weapons and equipment – even as these firms "receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally-crafted Pentagon appropriations...
Israel Lobbies US Congress to Pressure South Africa to Drop ICJ Genocide Case
Israeli officials are lobbying U.S. lawmakers to pressure South Africa into dropping its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, according to a report published Monday. Axiossaid it obtained a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry cable sent...
Amnesty War Crimes Probe Exposes Israel’s ‘Wanton Destruction’ in Gaza
Amnesty International said Thursday that the Israeli military should be investigated for the "war crimes of wanton destruction and of collective punishment" over its destruction of entire communities along Gaza's border with Israel. "Using bulldozers and manually laid...
Is US Rethinking Arms Exports to Israel After UK Halt? Biden Official Says ‘No’
Palestine defenders hopeful that the United Kingdom's announcement of a partial suspension of arms export licenses to Israel were left disappointed on Tuesday after a U.S. State Department official said the Biden administration was not considering any similar move....
UK Continues Use of Anti-Terrorism Law to Arrest Palestine Defenders
At least a dozen police officers raided the home of British pro-Palestine activist and journalist Sarah Wilkinson on Thursday over "content that she has posted online" that allegedly ran afoul of the United Kingdom's anti-terrorism law. "The police came to her house...
Amnesty Urges War Crimes Probe of ‘Indiscriminate’ Israeli Attacks on Gaza Camps
In an investigation focusing on a pair of Israeli massacres of forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza, Amnesty International on Monday urged the International Criminal Court – whose chief prosecutor has already applied for warrants to arrest Israeli and Hamas leaders...
‘Can’t Make This Up’: Journalist Arrested Under UK Anti-Terror Law Hours After Criticizing It
Richard Medhurst, a Syrian-British independent journalist who defends Palestinians' right to resist Israeli apartheid, occupation, and other crimes, said this week that he was recently arrested at London's Heathrow Airport and held for nearly 24 hours for allegedly...


