“This policy, inflicted as part of a mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, means Israeli authorities have committed the crime against humanity of extermination, which is ongoing. This policy also amounts to an ‘act of genocide’ under the Genocide Convention of 1948.”

Tirana Hassan, HRW’s Executive Director, said that countries like the United States, Germany and Britain could influence Israel’s actions and should do so by ending arms sales.

Earlier on Monday, the UN announced that around 143,000 people have been displaced from Al-Fasher in North Darfur State due to clashes between the army and the RSF militia. “Sudan continues to spiral into chaos, with the humanitarian crisis worsening and the horrific toll that the conflict is having on civilians in Al-Fasher and other conflict hotspots,...

Deliberate attacks on hospitals and ambulances in Gaza are an atrocity, the group said

Group urges International Criminal Court to 'take note of this call to commit a war crime'

This “would inevitably cause long-term suffering for civilians,” the NGO says

A planned overhaul of the judiciary by Israel's religious-nationalist government would be "a disaster" for human rights, HRW Executive Director, Tirana Hassan, told Reuters.

“This week, Palestinians and their supporters across the globe marked Nakba Day, commemorating the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes, and the more than 400 Palestinian villages destroyed in the events surrounding the establishment of Israel in 1948,” wrote Omar Shakir, HRW Israel and Palestine Director, Middle ...