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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich tells a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem that the ICC has issued an arrest warrant against him, May 19, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 19, 2026, 4:26 pm
Smotrich says ICC prosecutor has requested warrant for his arrest; orders demolition of West Bank hamlet
Warrant may be sought for far-right leader’s role in expanding settlements, which ICC could seek to prosecute as war crime. He calls the move a ‘declaration of war,’ instructs that Palestinian village east of Jerusalem be knocked down
By Jeremy Sharon
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks with officers in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis, August 21, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 22, 2025, 12:05 pm
Israel is planning to conquer Gaza City – what legal obligations will that incur?
Displacing the estimated one million residents of Gaza City will heighten Israel’s responsibility to ensure a humanitarian catastrophe is avoided, say legal experts
By Jeremy Sharon
Flagpoles line in rows in front of a building of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
March 6, 2025, 11:43 pm
Israel hails cancellation of ‘biased’ Geneva Conventions meeting on Palestinians
Swiss government invited signatories to talk on applying convention to West Bank and Gaza, but too few participants signed up; Foreign Ministry says it worked ‘intensively’ for this
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Cars sit in traffic as people flee the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, in Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
October 9, 2024, 10:22 am
All’s fair in Lebanon war? When it comes to removing Hezbollah, Israeli experts say yes
Allegations of ‘forcible displacement’ of Lebanese civilians and disproportionate strikes on Hezbollah leaders do not match up with reality on the ground, according to academics
By Jeremy Sharon
Demonstrators calling upon the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take action for the release of hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 and currently held in the Gaza Strip, outside the ICRC offices in Tel Aviv on November 9, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
November 20, 2023, 11:33 pm
Red Cross ‘cannot force its way in’ to see hostages, but critics say it could do more
ICRC says it can’t visit Gaza hostages unless Hamas allows it to do so, but government and families say it could exert more diplomatic pressure, including with Egypt and Qatar
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Explosions illuminate the sky during Israeli strikes on Gaza City on October 10, 2023. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
October 25, 2023, 12:40 am
Is the IDF’s ongoing Gaza operation complying with the laws of war?
Civilian casualties in Gaza, as Israel sets about destroying the ruling terror group, are inevitable but not illegal, experts explain, if the army acts with necessary caution
By Jeremy Sharon
Young children pull a sledge as they walk up a slope through snow in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 7, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP)
February 14, 2023, 9:20 pm
US study flags possible war crime as Russia holds thousands of Ukrainian children
In possible violation of Geneva Convention, at least 6,000 children as young as 4 months said taken to 43 camps across Russia to receive ‘patriotic and military-related education’
By AFP
A view shows a destroyed Russian army multiple rocket launcher on the outskirts of Kharkiv on March 16, 2022, amid the ongoing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)
March 17, 2022, 3:06 pm
Human Rights Watch urges Ukraine to stop parading around Russian prisoners
Watchdog says such treatment of POWs violates Geneva Conventions on humanitarian law during conflict
By AFP
Illustrative: Alistair Burt, British Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa, visits the Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin village in the West Bank, May 30, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
May 30, 2018, 7:50 pm
UK minister urges Israel not to demolish West Bank Bedouin village
Alistair Burt visits Khan al-Ahmar, says moving residents could be ‘forcible transfer of people’; Israeli court ruled construction was illegal
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian rioter in Wadi Joz, near the Old City of Jerusalem, July 21, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
August 16, 2017, 7:25 pm
Police accused of assaulting staff, patients at East Jerusalem hospital
Left-wing group says border guards used violence while searching for rioters, may have caused the death of a patient
By ToI Staff
Marwan Barghouti, file photo (Flash90)
April 17, 2017, 8:17 am
In NYT piece, jailed Fatah terrorist accuses Israel of ‘judicial apartheid’
Explaining mass hunger strike he is leading, Marwan Barghouti claims courts are ‘a charade of justice’ and ‘instruments of occupation’
By ToI Staff
Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 22, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)
February 7, 2017, 8:50 pm
The true significance of Israel’s settlement legalization law
The flurry of hand-wringing over the Regulation Law has largely missed what may be its most dramatic consequence — that it makes it harder for Israel to stick to its longstanding policy of permanent indecision in the West Bank
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (sitting) with Jewish Home MK Uri Ariel during a plenum session on the so-called Regulation Bill, November 16, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 6, 2017, 11:06 pm
Washington tried to defer Regulation Bill vote — report
Right-wing politicians ‘pushing Trump into conflict with Israel,’ sources say, according to TV report; vote going ahead anyway
By Sue Surkes
US Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Senator John McCain speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 15, 2016. (AP/Susan Walsh, File)
November 19, 2016, 11:41 pm
McCain to Trump: We are not bringing back waterboarding
Leading Republican warns any effort by president-elect to restore extreme interrogations will be challenged in court
By AP
Illustrative: A security fence around a Jewish settlement in the West Bank (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 3, 2015, 10:19 pm
West Bank settlements are legal, Foreign Ministry asserts
Official document distributed to Israeli diplomats says Jewish communities beyond Green Line are ‘not colonization’
By ToI Staff
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