Amnesty International urges the Human Rights Council to call on Israel and the authorities in Gaza to immediately open investigations into alleged war crimes, possible crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international law reported during the conflict in Gaza and southern Israel....

The Israeli authorities must disclose details of the internal investigations they have carried out into the conduct of the Israeli armed forces, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. The call coincides with UN Human Rights Council discussions that started on Tuesday on the Goldstone report on...

Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan has urged the US government to examine the findings of Judge Richard Goldstone’s  report on violations of international law committed in Gaza and southern Israel in late December and January. The report found Israeli forces committed violations of...

Four men were shot dead by Egyptian security forces as they attempted to cross the border into Israel on Tuesday. Two others were also injured in the deadliest such incident on the Sinai desert border area this year. Amnesty International has urged the Egyptian authorities to bring their forces...

Five families in the West Bank hamlet of Hadidiya are under threat of immediate eviction. At least 12 others are fighting eviction and demolition orders in the Jordan Valley area. In total, more than 150 people, many of them children, risk losing their home and being evicted from the area. The...

Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing numbers of their colleagues around the world. This year, though, there is some relief from the unrelenting bad news. The International Federation of Journalists...

The Israeli army is being pressed to make public the full details of its probe into the conduct of its forces during the 22-day military offensive in Gaza which began on 27 December 2008. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) concluded that its forces had committed no human rights violations and made...

Amnesty International has said that both the Israeli and Palestinian sides must fully cooperate with the UN’s fact-finding mission. The mission is looking into possible war crimes and international law violations committed during the recent conflict in Gaza and southern Israel. “The victims of this...

The Israeli army has dismissed as “hearsay” the testimonies of soldiers who served in Gaza during the recent 22-day military offensive and who gave chilling accounts of the conduct of some of the troops. The soldiers – speaking at a conference for graduates of a pre-army service training college on...

Palestinian armed groups have held Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for 1,000 days, denying him visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). They have also denied him communication with his family, bar a couple of letters in almost three years. Gilad Shalit was seized by Palestinian...

A group of 16 of the world’s leading war crimes investigators and judges – backed by Amnesty International – has urged the United Nations to launch a full inquiry into alleged gross violations of the laws of war committed by both sides during the recent conflict in Gaza and southern Israel. An open...

Both Israel and Hamas used foreign-supplied weapons to attack civilians according to fresh evidence released by Amnesty International. Munitions from the USA, Israel’s main foreign arms supplier, were used by Israel forces during three-week conflict in Gaza and southern Israel. Hamas and other...