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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 466

Amnesty International

Screen capture of the Amnesty Israel webpage, January 8, 2025. (Amnesty Israel. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 8, 2025, 5:10 pm
Amnesty International suspends defiant Israel branch for ‘undermining’ its mission
Rights organization accuses local mission of ‘endemic anti-Palestinian racism’ and threatening organization’s ‘credibility, integrity’; freeze to remain in place for two years
By ToI Staff
House destroyed by a Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile in Kiryat Shmona on December 1, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
December 21, 2024, 3:28 am
Amnesty says Hezbollah attacks on civilians must be investigated as war crimes
Rights group previously accused Israel of war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza as well
By AFP and ToI Staff
Lebanese soldiers inspect the damage in the southern Lebanese village of Al Khiam, near the border with Israel, on December 12, 2024. (AFP)
December 13, 2024, 1:16 pm
Lebanon says 1 killed in Israeli strike on border town that IDF left amid ceasefire
Attack on Al Khiam also injured one, says Lebanese health ministry; troops find Hezbollah arms in scan of south Lebanon; Amnesty: 4 Israeli strikes in Lebanon could be war crimes
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa (L) and Saudi Arabia's Minister of Sports and Youth Abdulaziz bin Turki al-Faisal al-Saud celebrate after Saudi Arabia was confirmed as host of the 2034 World Cup during a ceremony in the capital Riyadh on December 11, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
December 11, 2024, 9:49 pm
Saudi Arabia to host 2034 soccer World Cup as human rights groups cry foul
Amnesty statement co-signed by several groups warns migrant workers will be exploited; separate group’s statement says laborers already working 10-hour shifts in extreme heat
By Agencies
Illustrative: A man walks past the logo of the Amnesty International at its office in Hong Kong, October 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
December 6, 2024, 4:02 pm
Germany joins US in rejecting Amnesty’s ‘genocide’ accusation against Israel
German foreign ministry spokesman says Israel acting defensively, notes that Hamas started war; still repeats call for Israel to ‘adjust’ its operations to protect civilians better
By AFP and ToI Staff
Amnesty International Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand, September 8, 2015. (chameleonseye/istock)
December 5, 2024, 3:47 pm
‘Predetermined conclusions’: Amnesty Israel workers slam parent group’s ‘genocide’ charge
Local branch rejects report’s conclusion, but says Israeli actions ‘may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing’; US also rejects genocide conclusion
By Jeremy Sharon, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Palestinians wait for food aid outside a distribution center at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 4, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
December 5, 2024, 5:13 am
Amnesty report accuses Israel of seeking genocide in Gaza; Jerusalem slams ‘lies’
Investigation by rights group alleges Israel pursuing destruction of Palestinians via ‘slow death,’ deliberate targeting of civilians; Foreign Ministry says report ‘entirely false’
By AP and ToI Staff
Iraqi women demonstrate against underage marriage in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on August 8, 2024. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
December 1, 2024, 11:23 pm
Iraqi MPs to debate revised bill critics fear will allow 9-year-old girls to marry
Legislation allows people to choose religious law for family matters, communities to set own guidelines; MP says latest revised version sets the minimum marital age at 15
By AFP
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is seen onstage at a conference on June 7, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images/via JTA)
October 9, 2024, 8:40 pm
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book draws on Jim Crow-era US to weigh in on Israel-Palestine
Altercation with CBS host while promoting book sparks controversy at the network; the author rejects claims of bias, saying ‘no shortage’ of pro-Israel voices in US
By JTA, AP and ToI Staff
Buildings razed in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, as part of the army's efforts to establish a buffer zone on the border with the Gaza Strip, in an image provided by the IDF on January 10, 2024. The Israel-Gaza border runs across the bottom of the picture. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 5, 2024, 8:53 am
Amnesty International calls for war crimes probe over creation of Gaza buffer zone
Rights group cites satellite data and soldiers’ clips, decries ‘wanton destruction and of collective punishment’; Israel says buffer zone needed to prevent another Oct. 7 massacre
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Former US president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Historic Greenbrier Farms in Chesapeake, Virginia, on June 28, 2024. (Jim Watson/AFP)
June 29, 2024, 4:59 am
Trump again denounces political foe as a ‘Palestinian,’ this time going after Schumer
CAIR and Amnesty International say former US president’s use of term is racist, after he called Biden ‘a very bad Palestinian’ at debate
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinians sit by the rubble of a family house that was hit overnight in an Israeli airstrike in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah in southern Gaza on May 20, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
May 27, 2024, 12:58 pm
Amnesty urges ICC to probe alleged war crimes in recent Israeli strikes on Gaza
Human rights organization accuses Israel of killing 44 Palestinian civilians, including 32 children, in three airstrikes in April, says no military targets nearby
By AFP and ToI Staff
Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, 20, an Iranian Jew executed in November 2024 (Iran Human Rights)
May 19, 2024, 1:40 pm
Jewish Iranian sentenced to death for murder receives last-minute stay of execution
Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani was allegedly defending himself against knife attack when he killed Amir Shokri in brawl; international rights groups working to have sentenced commuted
By ToI Staff
Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, 20, an Iranian Jew executed in November 2024 (Iran Human Rights)
May 18, 2024, 12:39 pm
Jewish Iranian set to be executed Monday for allegedly killing man in self-defense
Opposition site says Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani was defending himself against knife attack when he killed Amir Shokri in brawl; victim’s family can spare him, but refused to do so
By ToI Staff
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr burn a poster depicting an LGBTQ+ flag during a protest in Karbala on June 29, 2023. (Mohammed Sawaf/AFP)
April 28, 2024, 1:10 pm
Iraq criminalizes same-sex relations, sets 10-15 year prison sentence
New law also makes it illegal to undergo or perform gender-affirming treatment for transgender people
By AFP
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