Israel Rejects Humanitarian Ceasefire
Said Khatib / Getty Israel shot down rumors of another ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza on Tuesday, telling a United Nations envoy that...
View ArticleWar crimes likely by both sides in 2014 Gaza war, says UN report
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View ArticleU.N. official cites possibility of war crimes in Gaza war
Geneva -- The United Nations' top human rights official, Navi Pillay, said Wednesday that there was a "strong possibility" that Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes with indiscriminate attacks on...
View ArticleIsraeli General: No Civilians in Gaza
Jack Guez, AFP / Getty Images Retired Israeli Major General Giora Eiland wrote in an op-ed that there is no such thing as an innocent civilian in Gaza. Late Monday, the former head of the National...
View ArticleInt’l Court Probes Israeli War Crimes
The International Criminal Court has begun a preliminary investigation into potential war crimes committed in Palestinian territories by Israelis, the...
View ArticleUN: Both Israel, Gaza militants may be guilty of war crimes
JERUSALEM (AP) — A U.N. investigation on Monday accused both Israel and Hamas militants of committing possible war crimes in last summer's Gaza war, finding that Israeli airstrikes on residential...
View ArticleIsrael 'Could Be Guilty Of Gaza War Crimes'
The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights says there is a "strong possibility" Israel is violating international law in Gaza. Opening an emergency debate at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva,...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza
JERUSALEM: Human Rights Watch accused Israel of committing war crimes by attacking three UN-run schools in the Gaza Strip in fighting in July and August, killing Palestinian civilians who had sheltered...
View ArticleUN: Israel assault in Gaza may be war crime
Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip could amount to war crimes, UN rights chief Navi Pillay said, as Israel continued pounding Gaza for a 16th day. Pillay on Wednesday has also condemned...
View ArticleUN Debate Condemns Israel’s Military Incursion into Gaza
Lisa Schlein GENEVA — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay is warning Israel that targeting civilian facilities in Gaza may amount to war crimes, and she called for an end to the 16-day...
View ArticleUN: Israel, Gaza militants may be guilty of war crimes
Josef Federman and Karin Laub, Associated Press 8:12 p.m. EDT June 22, 2015 Palestinian children looks at the remains of a car on June 22, 2015 in Gaza City that was destroyed during 50-day war between...
View ArticlePraise, condemnation for U.N. Gaza report from two sides in conflict
Jerusalem (CNN)Neither side came out well from the long-awaited U.N. report into last summer's 50-day Gaza war. But while Israel blasted the U.N. Human Rights Council's report, calling it "biased" from...
View ArticleHamas, Israel Trade Rocket Fire
Jack Guez, AFP/Getty Images Rockets rained down on major Israeli cities and the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night. Hamas fired rockets at Haifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv,...
View ArticleGaza war 2014: Israel, Hamas may have committed war crimes, UN report says
GENEVA: Both Israel and Palestinian militants may have committed war crimes during last year's Gaza war, a widely anticipated United Nations report said on Monday, decrying the "unprecedented"...
View ArticleUN: War crimes likely committed by both sides in Gaza
An independent UN commission of inquiry has found that both Israel and Palestinian groups committed serious abuses that could amount to "war crimes". The commission released its report on the 50-day...
View ArticleUN panel faults Israel, Hamas for possible war crimes in Gaza
A United Nations inquiry into last summer’s war in the Gaza Strip faults both Israel and Hamas for violating laws on international warfare, saying their actions “may amount to war crimes” and that the...
View ArticleUN accuses Israel and Hamas of possible war crimes during 2014 Gaza conflict
A United Nations inquiry into the 2014 Gaza war has accused Israeli and Palestinian factions of multiple potential violations of international law including suspected war crimes. ...
View ArticleDid the United Nations Give Rockets to Hamas?
The U.N. agency that runs schools and hospitals in Gaza is supposed to be neutral. But they gave rockets found in one on their buildings to cops who many believe report to Hamas. When rockets were...
View ArticleNetanyahu Blames Hamas for Gaza Deaths
POOL New/REUTERS In the brief calm of the 72-hour ceasefire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Palestinian casualties in Gaza. “Israel deeply regrets every civilian casualty,...
View ArticleUN report finds both Israel and Palestine may be guilty of war crimes in Gaza
Smoke rises over Gaza City after an Israeli strike in July, 2014. Photo: AP Netanyahu rejects 'international diktat' Geneva: A United Nations investigation has found "serious violations of...
View ArticleHamas Changes and Accepts 24-Hour Truce
REUTERS Hamas announced that it would accept a 24-hour humanitarian truce after rejecting Saturday's deal for a ceasefire extension. "It has been agreed among resistance factions to endorse a 24-hour...
View ArticleSenators: Take Gaza Away From Hamas
Many Israeli politicians have begun pushing for slow-motion regime change in Gaza. Perhaps it’s a coincidence that the vast majority of the U.S. Senate now is in a similar mood. Over the summer, the...
View ArticleU.N. panel says both Israel, Hamas may have committed war crimes in Gaza
A long-awaited report by a United Nations special investigative panel concluded that both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas may have been guilty of war crimes during last summer's Gaza...
View ArticleHamas Claims Capture of Israeli Soldier
Mohammed Salem / Reuters On the deadliest day so far in the rapidly widening Gaza-Israel conflict, the militant group Hamas claimed to have captured an Israeli soldier. Moments after the Al Qassam...
View ArticleIsrael to Begin Ground Operation in Gaza
© Ronen Zvulun / Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed on Thursday that the country’s military will begin ground operations in Gaza. The aim is...
View ArticleAmnesty: Israel Committed War Crimes
Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Human-rights group Amnesty International declared in a report Wednesday that in the recent Gaza war, “Israeli forces killed scores of Palestinian...
View ArticleIsrael and Gaza dispute UN report alleging ‘war crimes’
Israel’s prime minister says the United Nations report on the 2014 Gaza war is “biased”. Binyamin Netanyahu said the UN Human Rights Council, which commissioned the inquiry, does “everything but worry...
View ArticleIsrael, Palestinians may have committed war crimes in Gaza - U.N. report
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. investigators said on Monday that Israel and Palestinian militant groups committed grave abuses of international humanitarian law during the 2014 Gaza...
View Article‘Strong Possibility’ of Gaza War Crimes
Pierre Albouy / Reuters The top human rights official of the United Nations said Wednesday it is likely both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes during fighting in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes on...
View ArticleU.N.: Signs of Hamas, Israel War Crimes
A United Nations Human Rights Council report has found “serious violations of international humanitarian law” that “may amount to war crimes” in last summer's war in...
View ArticleAmnesty Accuses Palestinian Groups of War Crimes
VOA News Amnesty International says Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes by firing rockets and other crudely built, indiscriminate projectiles into Israel during last year's conflict in the...
View ArticleAmnesty says Gazan militants committed war crimes
JERUSALEM (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday that Palestinian militant organizations had committed war crimes during the 2014 Gaza-Israel conflict, by killing...
View ArticleAmnesty International accuses militants in Gaza of war crimes in 2014 conflict
Human rights group says militant organisations had killed both Israeli and Palestinian civilians using indiscriminate projectiles ...
View ArticleUN: Possible war crimes by both sides in Gaza
An independent UN commission of inquiry has found that both Israel and Palestinian groups committed serious abuses that could amount to "war crimes". The commission released its report on the 50-day...
View ArticleGaza war recriminations for Israel and Palestinian militants
The devastation caused by 50 days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip a year ago was staggering. On the Palestinian side, more than 2,000 people were killed,...
View ArticleDid Israel and Palestinian militants commit war crimes in Gaza?
The devastation caused by 50 days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip a year ago was staggering. On the Palestinian side, more than 2,000 people were killed,...
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