War crimes

Over 8,000 plaintiffs seek to hold PA liable for October 7 massacre, war damages

The Jerusalem District Court set Sunday as the deadline for arguments as a new study links the PA prisoner-payment system to senior Hamas figures involved in the massacre.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general Conference of Fatah Youth in Ramallah, with a backdrop including a portrait of Abbas and Yasser Arafat, November 27, 2025; illustrative.
The Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) detonates an unexploded ordnance, as it was impossible to be transported, in Sahlabad village on November 4, 2020 near Tartar, Azerbaijan. ANAMA representatives alleged the ordnance was a type of artillery shell containing white phosphorus.

White phosphorus leak reported inside US airbase in South Korea, safety ministry says

Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain, suspected of having committed war crimes in Darfur, Sudan arrived voluntarily this morning at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, on June 17, 2010.

ICC ends war crimes case against former Darfur rebel leader Abdallah Banda

Britain's Defence Secretary Wes Streeting speaks at Farnborough International Airshow on July 22, 2026 in Farnborough, United Kingdom.

Israel 'fallen short' of UK military standards in Gaza, new British defense chief says


Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina sentenced to death for students crackdown

The ruling is the most dramatic legal action against a former Bangladeshi leader in decades and comes months ahead of parliamentary elections expected to be held in early February.

A protester vandalises a mural of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with paint, demanding her resignation at Teacher Student Center (TSC) area of University of Dhaka in Dhaka, August 3, 2024.

Syrian general linked to Mossad indicted for torture in Austria - report

Syrian Brig.-Gen. Khaled al-Halabi, accused of overseeing torture in Raqqa during Syria’s uprising from 2011 to 2013, was arrested after years in hiding.

Ex-Syrian Brigadier General Khaled al-Halabi.

US officials found military lawyers warned there may have been evidence of war crimes in Gaza

The previously unreported intelligence described concerns within the Israeli military regarding the Israel-Hamas War.

Hamas, Red Cross searching for the remains of deceased hostages in Gaza City, October 28, 2025.

Alert! ‘Deep dark state’ rising: Conspiracy questions in the Sde Teiman scandal - opinion

Many questions remain unresolved about the Sde Teiman scandal and its leaked footage.

THEN-MILITARY advocate-general Maj.-Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi attends a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman last year. Tomer-Yerushalmi and her entire office covered up their own crimes, the writer charges.

Canadian MP calls for screening of IDF soldiers entering country

Canadian Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi said those who have served in the IDF should be screened to ensure they have not been involved in any breaches of international law before entering Canada.

Canadian MP Sameer Zuberi discussing screening IDF soldiers for war criminals

Greta Thunberg to be deported to Greece, Trump says Hamas faces 'obliteration' if it rejects deal

Hamas collecting hostage bodies • Detained flotilla participant accused of biting prison medical staff • Israeli, Diaspora communities commemorate Oct. 7 Massacre anniversary.

Hamas members stand at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.

Majority of US Jews think Israel committed war crimes, 40% say guilty of genocide in Gaza - poll

While Jews blame Hamas for the war, many have also waned in their support of PM Benjamin Netanyahu's war tactics, a Washington Post poll found.

A person looks on before a Yizkor ritual on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, as a banner opposing Israel's military action in Gaza hangs, in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City, U.S., October 2, 2025.

Lawyers demand arrest warrants, ICC genocide investigation, into Khamenei, IRGC over role in Oct. 7

Two US lawyers filed an ICC case accusing Iran’s Khamenei and Qaani of war crimes and genocide for backing Hamas in the October 7 massacre.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei embraces chief of Hamas's Shura Political Council Mohammed Ismail Darwish in Tehran, February 8, 2025.

Is the war against Hamas worth it? - opinion

Have we gone down a dark and seemingly endless hole, doubling down on an effort to erase the ineradicable, to set right the irretrievably wrong?

AN IDF convoy maneuvers on the Israeli side of the Gaza border last week. ‘I would suggest that this is our second war of independence, a test of our resolve to project and protect our sovereignty,’ says the writer.

Rights groups file case in Germany against German-Israeli soldier over suspected Gaza war crimes

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and three Palestinian human rights organizations said they filed a criminal complaint with Germany's federal prosecutor against an IDF sniper.

IDF soldier operating on Israel's border with Syria, September 9, 2025.