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Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories International Justice

Shocking spike in use of unlawful lethal force by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

With the world’s eyes fixed on Gaza, Israeli forces have over the past four months unleashed a brutal wave of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, carrying out unlawful killings, including by using lethal force without necessity or disproportionately during protests and arrest...
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: Release Palestinian human rights defender: Munther Amira

Munther Amira, Palestinian human rights defender and social worker, has been arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces since 18 December 2023. On 11 January 2024, an Israeli military court confirmed a four-month administrative detention order against him. Munther Amira’s health and wellbeing are at...
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories Armed Conflict

Israel/OPT: Adoption of UN resolution to expedite humanitarian aid to Gaza an important but insufficient step  

In response to the United Nations Security Council adoption of a compromise resolution calling for “urgent steps to immediately allow safe andunhindered and expanded humanitarian access” to Gaza and creating “the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities”, Amnesty International’s...
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: Palestinian journalists forcibly disappeared: Nidal al-Waheidi and Haitham Abdelwahed

Nidal al-Waheidi and Haitham Abdelwahed are journalists from the occupied Gaza Strip. Both were detained by Israeli forces on 7 October while they were reporting the Hamas-led attack and are held in conditions constituting enforced disappearance. Since then, Israeli authorities have refused to...
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories Armed Conflict

Israel/OPT: US veto of ceasefire resolution displays callous disregard for civilian suffering in face of staggering death toll

Reacting to the United States (US) veto of a UN Security Council draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said: “By vetoing this resolution, the US has displayed a callous...