Showing posts with label Human Rights Watch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human Rights Watch. Show all posts
Thursday, August 6, 2026

Deliberate attacks on civilians, which both journalists were, is a war crime. Israel has killed at least 15 journalists in Lebanon and 210 in Gaza since 2023, according to the UN human rights office. The reports also indicated that Israel delayed Lebanese ambulances from reaching Khalil and Faraj for hours – at one pointing dropping stun grenades on Lebanese Red Cross workers and firing on their ambulances.

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Killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was a war crime, say rights groups. Photograph: Mohammed Zaatari/AP   Israeli strike that killed...
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

A generational shift is transforming the US-Israel relationship. The Iran war has accelerated the fraying of ties. An end to unconditional US support would force a reckoning with reality - Kenneth Roth in the Guardian

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A generational shift is under way in the relationship between the United States and Israel. Tensions were already palpable because of Isr...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

East Jerusalem: Israel Escalating Home Demolitions, Evictions Discriminatory Laws Drive Forced Displacement in Silwan

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A Palestinian man looks on as an excavator clears the rubble of homes demolished by Israeli authorities in the Silwan neigh...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked : The organization claims the report, which finds Israel’s denial of the right of return is a crime against humanity, is ‘paused pending further analysis and research’

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Human Rights Watch's Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir, a US citizen, sits at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on ...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Paperback of the week: Righting Wrongs by Kenneth Roth -Roth spent three decades as head of Human Rights Watch. His record of past victories is also a warning for the future

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Roth notes the struggle for human rights is “incessant”; there is no sign that China and others will stop their abuses anytime soon"...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Justice for Palestinians Can’t Wait for a Peace Deal: Concrete Action by Governments Is Urgently Needed

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French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, Septemb...
Friday, August 1, 2025

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: US-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have put in place a flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths. -> The dire humanitarian situation is a direct result of Israel’s use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war—a war crime—as well as Israel’s continued intentional deprivation of aid and basic services, which amounts to the crime against humanity of extermination, and acts of genocide. -> States should press Israeli authorities to immediately stop using lethal force as crowd control against Palestinian civilians, lift Israel’s unlawful sweeping restrictions on the entry of aid, and for the United States and Israel to suspend this flawed distribution system.

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  Kenneth Roth @KenRoth It is a war crime -- part of its genocide -- for Israel to starve Palestinian civilians in Gaza. It is also a war cr...