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Palestinian terrorists drive back to the Gaza Strip with the body of Shani Louk, a German-Israeli dual citizen who was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmud)

November 23, 2023, 2:37 pm

How will captured October 7 terrorists be tried, and on what charges?

The Hamas terrorists who perpetrated the Oct. 7 atrocities could be charged with mass terrorism, murder with exceptional cruelty, assisting an enemy in war, but likely not genocide

By Jeremy Sharon

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

November 18, 2023, 6:26 pm

Elon Musk: Genocidal terms like ‘from the river to the sea’ to result in suspension

Under fire for endorsing antisemitic post, X owner says won’t tolerate ‘clear calls for extreme violence’ on social media platform such as ‘decolonization’

By ToI Staff

A dead body after the devastating assault by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 11, 2023 (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

November 3, 2023, 5:47 pm

9 bereaved Israeli families bring ICC war crime, genocide complaint against Hamas

Investigation into October 7 massacre and subsequent Israel-Hamas war could be conducted within probe into Israel launched by ICC in 2021

By AFP and ToI Staff

France's LFI MP Daniele Obono speaks during a press conference held by French leftist party La France Insoumise in Paris, on February 22, 2023. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)

October 17, 2023, 4:53 pm

French government wants hard-left lawmaker probed for backing Hamas

Daniele Obono of France Unbowed (LFI) insists Hamas a resistance movement; Spain defends ministers who panned Israeli Gaza strikes, including one who called them ‘planned genocide’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers remove bodies of Israeli civilians killed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

October 15, 2023, 2:17 pm

Hamas actions are war crimes, could constitute genocide – international law experts

Over 100 authorities from Israel and abroad say terror group’s massive attack was intended to destroy part of a national group, hostage-taking involved multiple crimes

By Stuart Winer

Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are seen in the center of the town of Goris on September 30, 2023 before being evacuated in various Armenian cities. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/AFP)

October 1, 2023, 1:34 am

90% of ethnic Armenians flee Karabakh enclave overrun by Azerbaijan army

100,417 people have entered Armenia since September 24, according to local authorities; 120,000 Armenians lived in enclave before Azerbaijani offensive last week

By Thibault MARCHAND

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Alexander Kozlov at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, September 6, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

September 6, 2023, 11:24 pm

Visiting ICC, American lawmakers accuse Putin of genocide in Ukraine

Leading a bipartisan delegation to The Hague, chair of US House Foreign Affairs Committee says the Russian leader has ‘tried to erase a culture, a people and a religion’

By Mike Corder

Mourners prepare to bury the remains of Yazidi victims, who had been massacred six years prior, in a cemetery in Sinjar, Iraq, February 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)

August 1, 2023, 4:38 pm

UK recognizes ‘acts of genocide’ by Islamic State against Yazidi people

British government’s decision is the fifth time London has officially acknowledged a genocide

By AFP

The new German film 'Measures of men' tackles Germany's colonial oppression in Africa. (Screenshot/YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

April 25, 2023, 5:39 pm

New film tackles Germany’s colonial crimes in Namibia genocide

‘Measures of men’ tells story of ethnologist in German West Africa in early 1900s, a chapter of history critics say the European nation has not reckoned with

By Céline LE PRIOUX

Armenian ceramist Vic Lepejian in his Old City studio, April 23, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

April 25, 2023, 4:27 am

On genocide memorial day, Jerusalem Armenians hold out hopes for Israeli recognition

The Jewish state has prioritized ties with Turkey and Azerbaijan over recognizing the WWI Ottoman massacre, critics say, as Armenian community voices shame over country’s stance

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: Russian soldiers guard an area as a group of foreign journalists visit Kherson during the occupation, Kherson region, south Ukraine, on May 20, 2022. (AP Photo)

December 21, 2022, 4:13 pm

‘We will find you’: Russians hunt influential Ukrainians during brutal occupation

Investigation finds imprisonment, torture, and execution of officials, journalists, activists and religious leaders part of premeditated strategy that could constitute a war crime

By Erika Kinetz

Visitors watch human skulls and bones of victims in Khmer Rouge regime on display at Choeung Ek memorial outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

December 4, 2022, 12:40 am

74 years after UN convention on genocides, world struggles to stop them occurring

Despite commitment after Holocaust to prevent further genocides, they continue to take place — in part due to misunderstanding about how they happen and how to prevent them

By Kerry Whigham

Illustrative: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a speech during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

November 30, 2022, 10:46 pm

German parliament labels 1930s ‘Holodomor’ famine in Ukraine a genocide

More than 3 million died in famine blamed on Stalin, though historians have debated if it was the result of intentional starvation or incompetence

By Geir Moulson

Holocaust survivor Zilli Schmidt provides testimony for the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma on August 1, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

October 22, 2022, 6:48 pm

Auschwitz survivor, advocate for recognizing Sinti and Roma genocide, dies at 98

Zilli Schmidt, who lost family to the Nazis, began speaking out publicly later in life about her experiences, urged against racism and right-wing extremism

By AP

Pope Francis prays in a cemetery at the former residential school, in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada, Monday, July 25, 2022. Pope Francis crisscrossed Canada this week delivering long overdue apologies to the country's Indigenous groups for the decades of abuses and cultural destruction they suffered at Catholic Church-run residential schools. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

July 30, 2022, 1:06 pm

Pope says treatment of Canada Indigenous people was genocide

Comments come after a six-day trip where he apologized to survivors of abuse at Catholic-run schools, who were cut off from families, language and culture

By AFP