07 December 2024
Antoine Bernard from Reporters Without Borders has said it appears that a single rocket fell on the car of Hamza Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya, both of whom worked for Al Jazeera. If this is the case, it will qualify as another war crime against journalists in Gaza, he told Al Jazeera; a massive slaughter and this has to stop.
Source: Al Jazeera
10 January 2024
Israel has deliberately killed four healthcare workers of PRCS. It isn't the first time that they have murdered health care members. They believe if they collapse the health care system in Palestine, the people will die on their own.
Source: ICRC
05 January 2024
The Israeli army had initially declared central Gaza as a safe area, urging Palestinians to flee there from the north, including Gaza City, when it launched its air attacks. The area is now heavily overcrowded.
Israeli snipers are attacking civilians, in one instance, a sniper shot dead a mother and her infant, “piercing the baby’s skull with a bullet”. The child fell out of the mother’s arms as both died, the resident said who witnessed these atrocities.
Source: Al Jazeera
27 December 2023
The Palestinian Ma’an News Agency quoted local sources as saying that enemy warplanes carried out airstrikes in front of the hospital, which led to the death of 18 people, and injuring dozens
Source: Saba
27 December 2023
In a statement, the Gaza-based government media office said late Tuesday the examination of bodies revealed that their shapes changed significantly due to the theft of vital organs from the corpses. It added that the Israeli army handed bodies without their names and refused to specify from where they were seized. It also said that the Israeli army repeated such an act during the ongoing war on Gaza and also exhumed bodies from graveyards.
The statement criticized what it said "the silent position of the international organisations operating in Gaza, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, towards such an awful crime by the (Israeli) occupation."
Source: TRT
20 December 2023
The three hostages, Yotam Haim, Samar Talalka, and Alon Shamriz, were kidnapped by Hamas during the Resistance's liberation attempt on southern Occupied Palestine on October 7. They had managed to escape Hamas captivity before they were shot dead by troops on Friday morning in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood. They put out SOS signs and spoke Hebrew. One of the soldiers even commanded one of the hostages to come outside only to get killed.
Source: Times of Israel
13 December 2023
On Wednesday 13 December in the morning, IOF soldiers infiltrated the Shadia Abu Ghazale school and massacred families who were taking refuge there, even executing newborn babies. Eyewitnesses say that, this morning, Israeli soldiers infiltrated the school and dragged the men outside. They then entered the classrooms and gunned down the terrified women, children and even infants who sought shelter there. In the aftermath, survivors discovered piles of bodies including newborn babies.
Source: Reuters
16 November 2023
An Israeli army officer fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday.
Source: The Guardian
14 November 2023
On November 5 an Israeli airstrike hit a car near Ainata, Lebanon, killing three children and their grandmother, and injuring their mother. The Israeli military admitted to striking the vehicle. Human Rights Watch stated that their killings were a war crime that warranted investigation.
Source: Human Right Watch
31 October 2023
flagrant violation of international laws related to the protection of civilians, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented severe abuse and torture against Palestinian civilians and detainees at the hands of the Israeli army in the West Bank.
The Geneva-based Euro-Med Monitor examined footage that showed Palestinian civilians in the town of Yatta in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, being dragged and assaulted by Israeli soldiers. The Palestinian civilians in the footage have been stripped of their clothes, have their hands and feet tied, and appear to have been left outdoors for hours at a time.
Source: Euro Med Monitor
30 October 2023
Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village.
The usage of white phosphorus is restricted under international humanitarian law. Although there can be lawful uses, it must never be fired at, or in close proximity to, a populated civilian area or civilian infrastructure, due to the high likelihood that the fires and smoke it causes spread.
Source: The Washington Post
20 October 2023
One of Gaza’s 1,000 Christians, Jahsan never doubted the church was a safe space for him, his pregnant wife and two children aged five and six. The Greek Orthodox church – the oldest in the city, located in the Zaytoun neighbourhood – has traditionally served as a sanctuary for both Christians and Muslims during Israel’s periodic wars against Gaza.
Source: Al Jazeera
17 October 2023
Israel bombed the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, killing at least 500 Palestinians - patients, nurses, doctors, babies, children, sheltering refugees.
Source: AA
17 October 2023
880 scholars of international law and genocide signed a public statement saying: “As scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies, and genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” reads the public statement signed by 880 scholars on 15 October. The statement was released one week after the Israeli aggression on Gaza began, with less than 20% of the current tally of deaths and destruction.
Source: Euro Med Monitor
11 October 2023
After more than a month of the Israeli government’s unlawful blockade of Gaza, which has included catastrophic cuts to water, fuel, and electricity, as well as very limited deliveries of food, water, and medical supplies, the lack of clean water is resulting in “grave concerns” by public health experts of an imminent infectious disease outbreak in Gaza, including waterborne illnesses like cholera and typhoid.
Source: Human Right Watch
10 October 2023
A video posted on the Israeli military’s official Hebrew-language Twitter account on Tuesday October 10 appears to show Israeli soldiers shooting dead four Palestinian men after they held up their hands and lay down on the ground in an apparent surrender. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the FRANCE 24 Observers they had no comment.
Source: Observers France
09 October 2023
Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza on Monday, flattening mosques over the heads of worshipers, wiping away a busy marketplace full of shoppers, and slaughtering entire families, witnesses and authorities in Gaza said.
Source: NY Times
01 September 1995
In September 1995, The New York Times reported that the Egyptian government had discovered two shallow mass graves in the Sinai at El Arish containing the remains of 30 to 60 Egyptian civilian and military prisoners allegedly shot by Israeli soldiers during the 1967 war. Israel declined to pursue charges, owing to its 20-year statute of limitations. The Israeli Ambassador to Cairo, David Sultan, asked to be relieved of his post after the Egyptian daily Al Shaab said he was personally responsible for the killing of 100 Egyptian prisoners, although both the Israeli Embassy and Foreign Ministry denied the charge. After his retirement, Brigadier-General in reserve, Arieh Biroh admitted in interviews to killing 49 Egyptian prisoners of war in the Sinai.[37]
Source: The New York Times
16 September 1982
On September 16, the IDF allowed Lebanese militias to enter Beirut's Sabra neighbourhood and the adjacent Shatila refugee camp. From approximately 18:00 on 16 September to 08:00 on 18 September, the militias carried out a massacre while the IDF had the Palestinian camp surrounded. The IDF had ordered the militias to clear out the fighters of the PLO from Sabra and Shatila as part of a larger Israeli maneuver into western Beirut. As the massacre unfolded, the IDF received reports of atrocities being committed, but did not take any action to stop it. Israeli troops were stationed at the exits of the area to prevent the camp's residents from leaving and, at the request of the militias, fired flares to illuminate Sabra and Shatila through the night. Between 460 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias—were killed in the massacre. Many of the victims were tortured before they were killed. Women were raped and some victims were skinned alive. Others had limbs chopped off with axes.
Source: Austenfeld, Thomas; Daphinoff, Dimiter; Herlth, Jens (2011). Terrorism and Narrative Practice. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 227–228
Beware of small states: Lebanon, battleground of the Middle East. Nation Books. p. 157
05 June 1967
During the Six Day War in 1967, the IOF was accused of killing captured Egyptian soldiers, fleeing soldiers, and civilians. Gabby Bron, a journalist for Yedioth Ahronoth, said he witnessed ten executions of Egyptian prisoners that were first forced to dig their own graves.
Source: U.S. Department of State Achive
05 June 1967
During the Suez Crisis in 1956, the IDF carried out massacres and summary executions at Khan Yunis and Rafah and the Israeli Border Police carried out a massacre at Kafr Qasim
Source: Lucas, Noah (1975). The Modern History of Israel. New York, New York: Praeger Publishers. p.