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Swedish prosecutors charged a woman on Thursday with crimes against humanity for acts in Syria against women and children of the Yazidi religious minority between 2014 and 2016, the first time the Nordic country has brought this charge. The woman, a 52-year-old Swedish citizen identified in the...

On Friday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk told the Security Council that the attack on Hezbollah communications devices violated international law and could constitute a war crime. A senior UN official also told the Security Council that further violence between Israel and...

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a Palestinian-drafted resolution that demands Israel end "its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory" within 12 months. The resolution received 124 votes in favor, while 43 countries abstained and Israel, the United States and 12 others voted no.

Turkey is seeking international arrest warrants for Israeli soldiers involved in the killing of a Turkish-American citizen in the occupied West Bank. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot while protesting the expansion of a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Israel has taken responsibility for the death...

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called on judges to “urgently” rule on his request for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others linked to the war on Gaza. Prosecutor Karim Khan said that “any unjustified delay in these proceedings...

Sixty global press freedom and human rights organizations have signed a letter calling on the European Union to take decisive action against Israel for its escalating violations of media freedom and the killing of journalists in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and Israel. The letter urged the...

Hamas has rejected new Israeli conditions put forward in Gaza ceasefire talks in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, casting further doubt on the chances of a breakthrough in the latest United States-backed effort to end the 10-month-old war. A Hamas delegation left Cairo on August 25 after meeting with...

Successive Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza have displaced 90 percent of its 2.1 million residents since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, the top U.N. humanitarian official for the Palestinian territory says. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says she and President Joe Biden are working to...

Hamas has said a ceasefire deal must result in a permanent end to Israel’s war on Gaza, accusing the United States of “merely buying time for Israel to continue its genocide” by proposing an amended accord. As the Palestinian group revealed details of Israel’s new conditions, it urged the world to...

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for saying it may be “justified and moral” to starve Palestinians in Gaza. In a statement on August 8, the Foreign Ministry...