Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Israel’s repeated use of heavy bombs in the densely-populated Gaza Strip indicates repeated violations of the laws of war, the UN has said, highlighting six attacks that killed at least 218 people. In a fresh report, immediately slammed by Israel as ‘deeply biased’, the United Nations’ ri...
ATHENS (AA) – Italy’s Greens and Left Alliance (AVS) has urged the government to recognize Palestine as a state and support the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu liable for “crimes against humanity” in Gaza. Speaking to the country’s state-run ANSA news agency, party’s lawmaker Angelo Bonelli ...
Sydney, Australia – AFP An Australian judge has sentenced a former army lawyer to more than five years in jail for stealing secret defence files on the Afghanistan war and leaking them to the media. David McBride, who pleaded guilty in November to three charges of stealing and sharing military information, was given five years […]
LONDON (AA) – British lawmaker Zarah Sultana accused the government on Tuesday of being “deeply complicit” in Israel’s “genocidal assault” in Gaza, calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to “stop arming war crimes.” In a letter to Sunak, Sultana mentioned the genocide case brought by South Africa at the...
ISTANBUL (AA) – South Africa’s nearly 50 lawyers are preparing a lawsuit against the US and UK governments on the grounds that they are complicit in Israeli forces’ war crimes in Palestine. The initiative, led by South African lawyer Wikus Van Rensburg, aims to prosecute those who are complicit in the crime in civilian courts...
ANKARA (AA) – Hamas has described the US position on South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as showing “contempt for international law and (being) an American attempt to disrupt it.” In a statement, the Hamas group said the comments by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken rega...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel allows non-Israeli Jewish individuals to voluntarily join military service, an army spokesperson has said, without disclosing the number of foreign mercenaries currently serving, as a debate has erupted following a French lawmaker filing a criminal complaint and South Africa threatening to revoke the nationalities of na...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Israel’s brutal war is pushing Gaza into famine and a staggering 90% of the people there are on the brink of starvation, UK-based anti-poverty organization Oxfam has warned. “While over 90% of people in Gaza cannot find their next meal, some UN Security Council member states are still toying with words rather [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel’s war on Gaza has been deadly for journalists – the deadliest ever conflict for media workers, specifically because of the high number of fatalities in such a short period of time, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). CPJ data as of December 17 shows at least 64 media workers killed […]
LONDON (AA) – Activists from Scotland have condemned Israel’s war on Gaza as “genocide” and “war crimes,” calling out Western nations for their hypocrisy, double standards and reluctance to stop the deadly assault on Palestinians. What’s happening now in the Gaza Strip is “absolutely genocide,” Muna Ausat, a member of the Scottish Palestine So...
