War crimes

Mamdani: Suffering did not begin, end on October 7, continued throughout Israel's 'Gaza genocide'

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mourned those killed and abducted on October 7 while accusing Israel of genocide, apartheid, and war crimes during the Israel-Hamas War and the Gaza ceasefire.

|ByJAMES GENN
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, pictured in New York City, US, October 3, 2026; illustrative.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the 'This Past Weekend' podcast with comedian Theo Von, October 1, 2026.

Mamdani calls Netanyahu 'architect of horrific genocide,' calls for US to join ICC, enforce warrant

Mamdani made the remarks in an extensive interview on the American podcast This Past Weekend, hosted by Theo Von, a well known comedian and podcaster who regularly interviews public figures.

|ByIDAN KWELLER
Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, who resigned and was taken into custody of a war crimes tribunal, appears for the first time before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, Netherlands November 9, 2020.

The Thaci verdict exposes the West’s unresolved Kosovo double standard - opinion

Serbia seeks nothing other than equal treatment and for what happened during the conflict in Kosovo and Metohija (KiM) to be called by its proper name.

|ByALEKSANDAR NIKOLIĆ, VLADIMIR MARINKOVIC
People take part in the National March for Palestine - hands off Gaza, a pro-Palestinian protest calling for the government to "end the genocide and stop arming Israel", in London, Britain, January 31, 2026.

Genocide, apartheid, war crimes: What these claims against Israel mean - opinion

What I have witnessed does not resemble genocide, apartheid, war crimes, or a disproportionate response. It resembles the opposite: a democracy fighting, under enormous restraint, against an enemy.

|ByTUVIA BOOK

'Sanction Israel, launch war crimes investigation' demand Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh MPs

The letter added that, given the UK is party to the Genocide Convention, it has an "obligation to prevent acts that may amount to genocide."

AUGUST 19, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a statement inside No. 10 Downing Street on the day the cabinet was recalled to discuss the situation in Gaza, in London, Britain, July 29, 2025.

Leaving Gaza is the only way to defeat Hamas - opinion

Hamas actively seeks to engineer a humanitarian crisis. By leaving Gaza, Israel would ensure that the opposition to Hamas would be strengthened.

AUGUST 18, 2025ByNIMROD KOREN
A DAMAGED Israeli flag flies in the Gaza Strip amid destruction, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, earlier this month. Hamas is using Israel to harm as many Gazans as possible, creating and exacerbating a humanitarian crisis, the writer maintains.

War crimes likely committed by both sides in Syria sectarian violence, UN commission says

Some 1,400 people, mainly civilians, were reported killed during the violence that primarily targeted Alawite communities, and reports of violations continue.

AUGUST 14, 2025ByREUTERS
Syrian security forces stand alongside a vehicle in western Syria on March 21, 2025. A Reuters investigation found that thousands of forces carried out a wave of deadly attacks on Alawite villages in the region, leaving nearly 1,500 dead from March 7-9, 2025.

Gaza starvation claims: Blood libel revisited - opinion

International attention is claiming that Israel is to blame for the situation in the Gaza Strip.

AUGUST 7, 2025ByGAVRIEL SANDERS
ARMED PALESTINIANS ride on trucks carrying humanitarian aid near the Zikim border crossing from Israel into the northern Gaza Strip in June. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF accuse Hamas of blocking deliveries and stealing supplies, the writer notes.

Indicting Israel unfairly: Defining genocide broadly - opinion

We cannot be so hard-hearted to deny Palestinian suffering, exacerbated by Israeli operational failures, but we cannot let Hamas destroy us.

AUGUST 6, 2025ByGIL TROY
DAPHNA SHOCHAT of Physicians For Human Rights-Israel speaks at a news conference of Israeli human rights groups in east Jerusalem last week, issuing a report that accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza. We dare not fall for the jihadi genociders’ con, says the writer.

Hunger in Gaza? Not according to visuals on Hamas TV - opinion

One hour of viewing Hamas’s al-Aqsa channel shows both emaciated babies and normal-looking adults.

AUGUST 6, 2025ByHILLEL FRISCH
A Palestinian youth holds a can of chickpeas from an aid package dropped from an airplane, amid a hunger crisis, in the central Gaza Strip, July 28, 2025; illustrative.

Sexual violence in Sweida: A predestined chronicle of a failed response - opinion

It takes months, often years, to piece together the truth of what happened in such chaotic events. Do we wait for certainty, or do we speak now?

AUGUST 4, 2025ByMERAV ISRAELI AMARANT
A DRUZE flag flutters on a street in Sweida last month. Gender-based violence has been a central feature of the atrocities unfolding in Syria; we cannot turn away from this truth, the writer affirms.

IDF denies Green Beret claims of indiscriminate shooting, tank fire at Gaza aid sites

IDF rejected claims of violence against civilians at Gaza aid distribution site made by a US veteran and ex-GHF worker in a BBC interview.

JULY 28, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Palestinian man shows blood stains on his palm after he carried casualties among people seeking aid supplies from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025

I am a war scholar - there is no genocide in Gaza - opinion

I have reviewed their orders, watched their targeting process, and seen soldiers take real risks to avoid harming civilians. Nothing I have seen or studied resembles genocide or genocidal intent.

JULY 27, 2025ByJOHN SPENCER
Palestinians carry aid supplies that entered Gaza through Israel, in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, July 27, 2025

Assessing Russian crimes against Ukraine at deeper levels - opinion

The crimes perpetrated against Ukraine are even worse than the objective facts suggest, leaving observers with just a superficial understanding of cumulative harms.

JULY 23, 2025ByLOUIS RENÉ BERES
SERVICE MEMBERS of the National Guard of Ukraine wait before firing toward Russian troops, at a position in a front line, amid Russia’s attack on their country last Saturday in the Kharkiv region.