Each month, numerous NGOs produce reports on the humanitarian situation in Israel-Palestine, but US media rarely report on them. See this compilation of reports by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Red Cross, Christian Aid, B’Tselem, Defense for Children International, and others.
Just a few months after Israeli human rights org B’Tselem released its bombshell report calling Israel an apartheid state, another major group reaches the same conclusion – adding “persecution” to the charge of apartheid. A 200+ page report details Human Rights Watch’s findings.
The UN published its biweekly report on the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories. As usual, Israeli soldiers and settlers carried out numerous attacks, and property damage, including uprooting hundreds of Palestinian farmers’ trees.
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In Gaza, food/water/medical crises deepen ■ Israel’s act of mass piracy ■ Shocking actions by Israeli settlers ■ Smotrich, Ben Gvir strike back at ICC ■ Latest from Iran, Lebanon, US politics
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been in Israeli detention since December 2024, is in a “dire” health condition, United Nations experts warned as they called for his immediate release.
The report’s conclusion—that Israel’s denying Palestinians the right of return constitutes a crime against humanity–apparently made HRW’s legal dept uncomfortable enough to halt the report, a decision that one staffer described as “unprincipled and cowardly.”
War on Iran: news and headlines ■ Lebanon front: Israel goes Gaza ■ Gaza: weather woes ■ West Bank: settler killing ■ Israel in disarray ■ More.
Witnesses to the weekend raid on the community of Khirbet Humsa, involving dozens of settlers, describe a nightmare that lasted about an hour and also included violence against young girls in front of their bound parents and the looting of livestock and jewelry
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced airstrikes would intensify across Iran, telling reporters on Wednesday that U.S. forces were delivering “death and destruction from the sky all day long.”