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A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File)
August 11, 2026, 9:00 pm
Rights groups sue Trump over sanctions he placed on ICC due to Israel warrants
Human Rights Watch and 3 other groups ask New York to strike down Trump’s measures against court, calling them an ‘unlawful abuse of power’ that prevent justice being served
By Agencies and ToI Staff
File: Hamas terrorists are seen near the Gama Junction in southern Israel, close to Re'im and Kissufim, amid the October 7, 2023, onslaught. (South First Responders)
December 11, 2025, 11:55 am
In first, Amnesty accuses Hamas of crimes against humanity on Oct. 7 and during Gaza war
Organization had accused terror group of war crimes, now stresses systematic ‘extermination’; Hamas rejects charge, while Israel says report ‘falls far short’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Palestinians carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid, unloaded from a World Food Program convoy heading to Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
July 16, 2025, 10:05 pm
‘Manifestly illegal’: In Katz’s plan for Gaza ‘humanitarian city,’ experts see war crime
Senior Israeli academics have warned forcing Palestinians into a closed-off area would be legally unjustified and constitute crimes against humanity
By Jeremy Sharon
This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Press Office (PPO) shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas (R) meeting with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan (CL) in Ramallah in the West Bank on December 2, 2023. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP)
October 8, 2024, 9:28 pm
Israel claims ICC prosecutor denying country’s right to probe Gaza war allegations
Letter says Karim Khan’s refusal to specify the allegations against Israeli leaders before seeking their arrest means he never gave authorities a chance to actually investigate
By Jeremy Sharon
A grab from a UGC video posted on the Telegram channel 'South First Responders' on October 9, 2023, shows a Palestinian terrorist walking around the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel on October 7. (South First Responders/AFP)
August 16, 2024, 4:37 pm
Wheels of justice grind slowly for Oct. 7 terrorists, with prosecution a complex affair
Various proposals have emerged for how to tackle the incendiary cases involving many hundreds of suspects, but there’s still no clear decision on how to move forward
By Jeremy Sharon
Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Nasser Kanaani speaks during a press conference in the capital Tehran on December 5, 2022. (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP)
July 24, 2024, 3:22 pm
Iran condemns UN expert report on 1980s ‘atrocity crimes’
Iranian spokesman says detailed report by special rapporteur Javaid Rehman, alleging ‘crimes against humanity of murder and extermination as well as genocide,’ is ‘fake news’
By AFP
Anti-Syrian regime mourners shout slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad during the funeral a 12-year-old who was allegedly killed by Syrian security forces at an anti-Assad protest in Kfar Suseh area, Damascus, Syria, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP)
July 3, 2024, 1:27 pm
4 Syrian-Palestinians among 8 arrested in Germany, Sweden for crimes against humanity
Detainees suspected of ‘violent crackdown on a peaceful anti-government protest’ in Damascus in 2012 that killed six, prosecutors say
By Jastinder KHERA
Chairwoman of the 'The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel,' South Africa's Navi Pillay speaks during a briefing to UN member states about ongoing investigations of the Commission at the UN offices in Geneva, on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
June 12, 2024, 12:52 pm
UN reports accuse Israel of ‘extermination,’ crimes against humanity; Hamas of war crimes
Israel rejects findings that ‘outrageously and repugnantly attempt to draw a false equivalence between IDF soldiers and Hamas terrorists,’ accuses UN commission of systematic bias
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Former Canadian justice minister and human rights advocate Irwin Cotler, seen in Jerusalem in early 2023. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)
May 27, 2024, 7:17 pm
Irwin Cotler: ICC prosecutor weaponized international law in ‘incomprehensible’ way
Former Canadian justice minister says Karim Khan violating founding principle of ICC charter by ignoring Israeli legal independence, failing to give time for internal legal process
By Jeremy Sharon
Left: Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announces he is seeking arrest warrants from the court’s judges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, on May 20, 2024 (ICC); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video address, May 20, 2024. (Screenshot/ GPO)
May 20, 2024, 8:37 pm
Legal earthquake: ICC charges against Netanyahu would be unprecedented in court’s history
Court may take weeks or months to approve warrants. Gravest charges of crimes against humanity relate to humanitarian crisis in Gaza, alleged use of starvation as tool of war
By Jeremy Sharon
The 5 coffins of the Kotz family during their funeral in Gan Yavne, October 17, 2023. (Ohad Zwigenberg/ AP) surrounded by photos of the Kedem Siman Tov, Shosh, Shindler, Goldstein-Almog, Zak, Brodutch, Berdichevsky, Golan, Bibas, Kutz and Idan families, all of whom were among the many family units in which members were murdered, kidnapped or wounded by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2024*
May 20, 2024, 4:25 pm
Kinocide: Hamas targeting of families is a new crime against humanity
On October 7, Hamas committed atrocities deliberately targeting the family unit, a crime that is not defined in international law but should be
By Cochav Elkayam-Levy and Irwin Cotler
Demonstrators hold a banner reading 'Raped by Hamas' during a rally in front of UNESCO headquarters in Paris on December 1, 2023. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
January 9, 2024, 4:40 pm
In first, UN sending envoy to investigate Hamas sexual crimes on October 7
Pramila Patten, UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict, is reportedly slated to arrive in Israel this month at the invitation of the Foreign Ministry
By ToI Staff
The Mariupol theater, damaged during fighting in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, on April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
February 18, 2023, 5:40 pm
US accuses Russia of committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine
Announcing legal determination at Munich conference, Kamala Harris says Russian forces have carried out ‘gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape, and deportation’
By Karl Ritter and Geir Moulson
Four women suspected of trying to smuggle 15kg of cocaine and ketamine from Germany into Israel, arrive for a court hearing in Lod on February 2, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 3, 2023, 10:43 am
4 women indicted for attempting to smuggle drugs worth millions
Young suspects accused of trying to ferry 15 kilos of cocaine and ketamine through airport by concealing them in PlayStation, toiletry containers
By Ash Obel
Volunteers load bodies of civilians killed in Bucha onto a truck to be taken to a morgue for investigation, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
April 26, 2022, 9:38 pm
Signs of rape, other atrocities found on exhumed bodies near Kyiv
Forensic doctors tell The Guardian they have found several cases of women being sexually violated before killed during Russian occupation of Bucha area
By ToI Staff
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