Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's Vice Premier, Cancels U.K. Visit Over Arrest Fears
Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon recently canceled a planned trip to Britain for fear of being arrested there. Ya'alon was invited to London to atte...
Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon recently canceled a planned trip to Britain for fear of being arrested there. Ya'alon was invited to London to atte...
The Independent | Ben Lynfield | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
Ben Lynfield | The Independent Israel is threatening to kill off a crucial West Bank economic project unless the Palestinian Authority withdraws a re...
Jessica Montell | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
With the release of the Goldstone report, Israel has a choice. It can continue to shoot the messenger and bury its head in the sand, or it can initiate a genuine process of truth-telling and taking responsibility.
AP | AMY TEIBEL and PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Stung by a damning U.N. report alleging war crimes in Gaza, Israel is taking extraordinary steps to fend off potential international...
The Guardian | Ian Black and Ian Cobain | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
Israel received an uncomfortable reminder of international anger over the Gaza war today when lawyers representing 16 Palestinians asked a London cour...
wsj.com | EHUD BARAK | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
This week the United Nation's Human Rights Council produced a 600-page report alleging that Israel carried out war crimes in Gaza. The Goldstone Repor...
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
President Shimon Peres said Wednesday that the Goldstone report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes during its military offensive in the Ha...
AP | JEN THOMAS | Posted 09.13.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — A new report by Human Rights Watch charged Thursday that Israeli soldiers killed eleven unarmed Palestinian civilians who were carry...
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Amnesty International accused Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes Thursday in the most comprehensive report on the recent...
AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Human rights activists, some charging whitewash, demanded an independent war crimes probe after Israel's military on Wednesday clear...
AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 05.04.2009 | World
GENEVA — The United Nations on Friday appointed a widely respected South African judge who is a trustee of Hebrew University to lead a high-leve...
AP | STEVE WEIZMAN | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military on Thursday disputed Palestinian claims that most of the people killed in the recent Gaza Strip war were civili...
Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
Indiscriminate Attacks Caused Needless Civilian Suffering (Jerusalem) - Israel's repeated firing of white phosphorus shells over densely populated ar...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
Investigators reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Council Monday enumerated a number of human rights violations committed by Israel during it...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.20.2009 | World
Israel has been negotiating with Hamas, almost a thousand days have passed, more than a thousand lives have been lost. Let the prisoners and Shalit go home.
Haaretz | Posted 04.20.2009 | World
A United Nations human rights investigator said on Thursday that Israel's offensive against Hamas in densely populated Gaza appeared to constitute a w...
The Guardian | Peter Beaumont | Posted 04.02.2009 | World
The international criminal court is considering whether the Palestinian Authority is "enough like a state" for it to bring a case alleging that Israel...
Al Jazeera English | Posted 03.26.2009 | World
Amnesty International, the human rights group, has called for a global arms embargo on Israel over its conduct during the war on Gaza....
AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 03.16.2009 | World
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Palestinian leaders pressed prosecutors of the International Criminal Court on Friday to investigate alleged Israeli wa...
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 03.13.2009 | World
There are efforts now underway to try to bring Israel before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of alleged war crimes.
The Independent | Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
So that's that then, is it? Gaza is done and dusted? Very satisfying, I'm sure, for the Israeli leadership and their devoted allies at the BBC. But no...
McClatchy Washington Bureau | Shashank Bengali | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
ATATRA, Gaza Strip -- When President George W. Bush visited the West Bank a year ago, Palestinian militants in Gaza vented their anger by ransacking t...
Haaretz | Posted 02.25.2009 | World
The government on Sunday ratified a bill granting aid and support to Israel Defense Forces officers in cases where they face suits for alleged war cri...
Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
While those living in Gaza attempt to return to daily life, the international community struggles to understand the 21-day war between Israel and Hama...
The Telegraph | Damien McElroy | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
At least four human rights groups are believed to be compiling suits alleging that Israelis perpetrated war crimes in planning or carrying out the thr...
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home