EU says ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant 'binding'

Most world leaders, states and humanitarian organizations have praised the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue long-awaited arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ousted war minister Yoav Gallant.

ICC issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the regime's former defense minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity relating to the Gaza war.

ICC chief defends arrest warrant against Netanyahu for Gaza war crimes

ICC's Khan criticizes Berlin’s pro-Israel stance

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has defended his pursuit of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, emphasizing the need for timely action in investigating war crimes in Gaza.

Poll: More than half of Britons say Israel committing war crimes in Gaza

A survey has found that more than half of Britons across the political spectrum believe that Israel’s actions in the war on Gaza constitute war crimes.

Lebanese PM calls Israel’s evacuation orders a ‘war crime’

Lebanon's prime minister, Najib Mikati, has blasted Israel for its evacuation orders, the latest of which came on Thursday and displaced people in 10 towns and villages, as residents of Baalbek, Ain Bourday and Duris received renewed evacuation orders.

South Africa’s legal team says ‘intent is clear’ in Israel’s Gaza genocide

Lawyers submit hundreds of pages of evidence to meet ICJ deadline to prove that Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

While South African legal researchers were in an undisclosed location last week, racing against time to finalize hundreds of pages of evidence proving Israel’s intent to commit genocide in Gaza, in Israel, leaders gathering near the Gaza border were calling for the besieged and bombarded Strip to be emptied of Palestinians.

By Ali Mohammadi

Israeli genocide and Western media complicity

TEHRAN - Western corporate media has been busy in the past eleven months of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, marketing for all sorts of war crimes conducted by the Israeli war machine in Western and global public opinion.

EU tables sanctions on extremist Israeli ministers for hate crimes

The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has proposed sanctioning Israeli ministers for hate speech and incitement to war crimes, in another bid to toughen the bloc's response to Israel's war in Gaza.

By Professor Hossein Askari

Could the Gaza war morph into a Muslim-Jewish war and entrap the United States?

PORTLAND - Most people have witnessed the unfolding Israeli horrors in Gaza. No sane human being could classify Israel’s war as self-defense. It is brutal carnage in real time. Israel has killed well over 40,000 Palestinians, including 30,000 women and children in Gaza, with many more likely buried under the rubble and thousands injured; it has denied food and basic medicine to suffering Palestinians who have had limbs amputated without anesthetic and who face imminent danger of starvation, cholera and polio; and it has displaced the entire population of Gaza several times over.

By Matin Jamshidi

Bibi has nothing to say to Congress except his war crimes in Gaza

TEHRAN - It is quite clear that Benjamin Netanyahu, known as Bibi, plans to talk mostly about his disastrous war in the Gaza Strip while addressing the joint session of the House of Representatives and Senate in Washington on Wednesday. 

Israel ignores war crimes against Palestinians

An investigation by Israeli human rights group Yesh Din has found that of 573 cases of wrongdoing by the Israeli military in Gaza over the past decade, only one case led to a prosecution.

UN: Israeli killings in central Gaza may be war crimes

The UN human rights office says civilian deaths in Gaza during the Israeli operation to release four captives could amount to war crimes.

Tehran conference explores legal pathways to hold Israeli leaders accountable for war crimes

TEHRAN – On Sunday, the Iranian Central Bar Association convened a gathering in Tehran to investigate legal and judicial avenues for holding Israeli officials accountable for the heinous war crimes they have been committing against the people of Gaza over the past months. 

Jordan calls for probe into Israeli war crimes

The Jordanian foreign minister called for an international probe into Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

ICC demands Israel, US end threats against the court over Gaza war probe

The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has demanded an end to the intimidation of its staff, saying such threats could constitute an offence against the “administration of justice” by the world’s permanent war crimes court.

Israel is eviscerating ecosystems in Gaza: Climate Defiance

Climate Defiance, a climate activist group focused on young adults, says Israel’s devastating war on the Gaza Strip could make the besieged coastal enclave “uninhabitable not just for years but for generations”.

UN resolution demands Israel be held accountable for war crimes

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, although Israel dismissed it as a "distorted text".

By Professor Hossein Askari

Arabs: It is the 11th hour—stand up against Israel and the United States

Honor matters and shamelessness has its limits

Let’s face it. Arabs have done precious little in support of Palestinians since Israel’s unfolding massacre in 2024, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, inhumanity and yes, genocide in Gaza. If you don’t act now, all future generations of Arabs will be ashamed of their Arab heritage. All Muslims should be right behind you in support. And if there is any humanity left in us at all, we must all join the chorus of support.

UN special rapporteurs decry underreporting of sexual violence against Palestinians

As accounts of sexual violence against Palestinian women in Gaza are coming out, two women special rapporteurs of the UN say the issue is underreported and undervalued.

By Faramarz Koupayeh

Scholz cannot exonerate himself from complicity in Gaza crimes

Like President Joe Biden, Chancellor Olaf Scholz Biden emboldened Benjamin Netanyahu to commit crimes in Gaza. However, they both are expressing concern about Israel’s plan to attack the southern city of Rafah which is sheltering more than half of the internally displaced Gazan population.

Artists call for Israel to be excluded from Venice Biennale

More than 4,000 artists are calling for Israel to be excluded from one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious art exhibits.

Israel's ‘crimes of all crime’ continue in breach of ICJ orders on Gaza

Israel continues to commit crimes of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip in breach of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

'Palestine has turned into the first issue of the world'

UN has been pushed to the sideline on the Gaza war: Iranian president

TEHRAN – President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran said on Wednesday that the United Nations has lost its effectiveness in the Gaza war and being pushed to the sideline.