Israel’s “sustained policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance into the territory” pushed Human Rights Watch co-founder Aryeh Neier to view the assault on Gaza as a genocide. A widely respected humanitarian law expert who has resisted using the term “genocide” for Israel’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza—a word used […]
“A nuclear attack on Gaza would be catastrophic with unimaginable consequences,” said the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, adding that casual talks of using such arms “shouldn’t be normalized.” Anti-war voices on Monday fiercely condemned U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s suggestion that Israel would be within its rights to drop nuclear weapons on the Gaza Strip, seven months into […]
“It’s a real diplomatic punch,” a former Israeli diplomat said. “Israel would have to take it very seriously.” Egypt announced on Sunday that it would join South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice causing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. The announcement from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs came nearly a week after Israel seized the Gaza […]
“People have been fearing this for a long, long time and it is now upon us. There is constant bombardment. There is smoke on the horizon. There are people on the move,” said one humanitarian worker. United Nations experts on Friday used U.S. President Joe Biden’s own language regarding Israel’s offensive in Rafah, Gaza to demand that […]