War crimes

Netanyahu: ICC prosecutor used Israel warrants to dodge sexual assault scandal

Netanyahu accused ICC prosecutor Karim Khan of issuing false arrest warrants and thanked the US for sanctioning the court over its actions.

|ByANNA BARSKY, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
(Illustrative) ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan is under investigation after two seperate complaints of rape and sexual assault by former staff.
Portrait image of Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria

French court issues arrest warrant for former Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad

The warrants are over the assassination of two journalists during the bombardments of the rebel-held city of Homs in 2012.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte shake hands at a news conference in Kyiv last month. The alliance is obligated to stand with the victim state, but could incur serious risks of a wider war with Russia.

Standing with Ukraine, but not risking a greater war with Russia - opinion

US and NATO remedies would need to calculate variously complex hazards of competitive risk-taking.

|ByLOUIS RENÉ BERES
IDF Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth (C) meets with Israel Police officers, local leaders in the West Bank; illustrative.

Israeli civil rights org. calls for investigation into IDF West Bank chief for suspected war crimes

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel asked the IDF's legal chief to open a criminal investigation into IDF Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth for suspected war crimes.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Politicizing the Holocaust: It has come back to bite Israel - opinion

Instead of politicizing the Holocaust, Israel should have focused its efforts on demonstrating the Jewish historical connection to the land.

AUGUST 21, 2025ByJULIAN WOOD
THEN-US PRESIDENT Joe Biden is joined by President Isaac Herzog and then-prime minister Yair Lapid at Yad Vashem in 2022. Israel ferries foreign officials to the Hall of Remembrance instead of focusing on the Jewish connection to the land, says the writer.

'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.