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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
Palestinians inspect the damage around Gaza's Shifa Hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital after two weeks fighting terror groups there, on April 1, 2024 (AFP)
January 13, 2026, 8:52 am
Celebrities, NGOs sign letter accusing Israel of ‘direct attack’ on Gaza health care
Some 60 actors, human rights groups and Palestinian medical personnel demand unfettered aid to Palestinians, use language lifted from Genocide Convention, accuse Israel of targeting civilians
By ToI Staff
A paramedic helps a Palestinian family carry their belongings as an Israeli soldier enforces an evacuation order on a house in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on July 8, 2025. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
November 20, 2025, 2:11 pm
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes over West Bank displacements
Group finds military operations, demolitions in 3 towns led to expulsion of 32,000, calls for Israeli officials be held to account; Israel says ops targeted terrorist elements
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Displaced Palestinians walk through a makeshift camp along the beach in Gaza City, August 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
September 3, 2025, 10:45 am
Critics accused of quietly rewriting meaning of genocide to fling charges at Israel
Israel advocates say groups have broadened definitions of crimes against humanity to encompass Jewish state’s actions, but others maintain updates needed for decades-old formulation
By Luke Tress
This picture shows the destruction at Evin prison in Tehran after Israeli airstrikes in June, on July 1, 2025. (AFP)
August 14, 2025, 4:11 pm
Human Rights Watch calls Israeli strike on Iran’s Evin Prison ‘apparent war crime’
Group says attack was ‘unlawfully indiscriminate’ and came without prior warning, accuses Islamic Republic of mistreating and disappearing prisoners after strike
By AP and ToI Staff
Smoke plumes rising on the Greek-owned bulk carrier Magic Seas after an attack by the Houthis in the Red Sea, on July 8, 2025. (ANSARULLAH MEDIA CENTRE / AFP)
July 28, 2025, 9:21 am
Houthis say they’ll target all ships linked to firms dealing with Israeli ports
Previously, Iran-backed Yemen rebels have claimed they only attack ships directly tied to Israel through ownership or port calls
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Three women walk along the Corniche at dusk, with the Doha skyline in the background, in Doha, Qatar, May 15, 2025. (Fatima Shbair/AP)
May 25, 2025, 2:44 pm
Rights group accuses Qatar of decades of ‘intimidation’ against Baha’i minority
Human Rights Watch says discrimination and abuse has gone on for decades, posing a threat to existence of community in the Gulf state
By AFP
The logo of the Saudi 2034 FIFA World Cup football tournament is displayed on a wall at the Ministry of Media in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. (Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)
May 14, 2025, 9:54 am
Watchdog warns of ‘gruesome’ migrant worker deaths in World Cup host Saudi Arabia
Human Rights Watch says scores of laborers dying as they build stadiums for 2034 soccer championship, including by ‘falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation’
By GIUSEPPE CACACE
Suleiman Khalil, 21, who lost his leg in a landmine explosion while harvesting olives with his friends in a field, with his siblings from left to right, Sakina, 8, Nahla, 9, and Aya, 5, at his home in the village of Qaminas, east of Idlib, Syria, April 9, 2025. (Ghaith Alsayed/AP)
April 20, 2025, 12:05 pm
‘There were days I didn’t want to live anymore’: Land mine horrors persist in Syria
Watchdog finds that since 14-year civil war ended in December with fall of Assad, munitions have killed 249 people, including 60 children, and injured 379
By GHAITH ALSAYED and Sally Abou Aljoud
Tunisia's President Kais Saied takes oath, October 21, 2024 in Tunis following his re-election. (Tunisian Presidency via AP)
April 20, 2025, 11:07 am
Tunisia opposition figures get jail terms in mass trial; defense pans ‘masquerade’
Court hands out sentences of up to 66 years for 40 defendants, including prominent opponents of President Saied; French intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy said ordered jailed in absentia
By Kaouther Larbi
Palestinians line up to obtain drinking water during its distribution in the tents of the displaced, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on June 10, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
December 19, 2024, 1:25 pm
Rights group claims Gaza water scarcity is ‘act of genocide’; Israel: ‘Blood libel’
Human Rights Watch report accuses Israel of deliberately damaging water and sanitation sites amid war on Hamas; Jerusalem rejects ‘appalling’ charge, notes steps to ensure supply
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Displaced Palestinians from shelters in Beit Hanoun cross the main Salaheddine road into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip following Israeli army evacuation orders on November 12, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
November 14, 2024, 12:06 pm
Israel rejects HRW accusations of ‘forcible transfer,’ ‘ethnic cleansing’ in north Gaza
Group argues Israel can’t displace people purely based on ‘presence of armed groups’; Foreign Ministry says Israel working solely to dismantle Hamas terror capabilities
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Bloodstains are pictured on November 9, 2023, on a room's door at the Thai workers' residence inside Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, after the October 7 attack by Hamas. (Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP)
July 17, 2024, 11:00 am
Human Rights Watch details hundreds of war crimes by Hamas-led terrorists on Oct. 7
Organization with long history of criticizing Israel says number of crimes impossible to determine, including gender-based violence; Israeli watchdog group slams ‘token’ report
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative A shell explodes over a house in al-Bustan, a Lebanese village along the border with Israel, on October 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
June 5, 2024, 11:55 am
Rights group: Israel using white phosphorus on residential buildings in Lebanon
Human Rights Watch says no evidence of burn injuries but claims civilians have breathing troubles; Israel says substance used only as a smokescreen and not to target civilians
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A person holding a smartphone showing the NSO Group Technologies website next to a screen with the company's logo (T. Schneider/Shutterstock.com)
February 1, 2024, 2:59 pm
At least 30 phones of journalists, activists hacked in Jordan with Israeli tech
Forensic probe finds infiltrations were done with NSO’s Pegasus spyware; Jordanian government not named in report, but activists say Amman most likely culprit
By Frank Bajak
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