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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

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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
The trophy is displayed on the pitch ahead of the World Cup final soccer match between Argentina and France at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, December 18, 2022. (Martin Meissner/AP)
December 11, 2024, 8:54 am
FIFA to confirm soccer 2030 World Cup hosts, award 2034 tourney to Saudi Arabia
Three-continent, six-nation bid led by Morocco, Spain and Portugal to host 2030 event, irking environmentalists over emissions; Saudi Arabia to get 2034 despite human rights record
By Reuters and ToI Staff
File: Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian women's rights campaigner imprisoned by Iran who won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 6, 2023. (AFP/Narges Mohammadi Foundation)
November 19, 2024, 10:19 am
Rights groups voice concern for health of Nobel prize laureate imprisoned in Iran
Narges Mohammadi is returned to prison two days after undergoing surgery to remove potentially cancerous bone from her leg
By Jon Gambrell
Illustrative: A Saudi flag behind barbed wire. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
November 17, 2024, 5:39 pm
Record 101 foreigners executed in Saudi Arabia so far in 2024, tally finds
Figure nearly triple the counts for 2022 and 2023; latest sentence carried out for Yemeni national convicted of drug smuggling; kingdom executed 274 people in total over past year
By AFP
Activists clash with police in the northern Israeli city of Haifa during a protest against the war in Gaza, May 30, 2024. (Flash90)
October 22, 2024, 6:04 am
Accused of meddling in war or muddling rights, High Court rankles both left and right
Liberal groups accuse the bench of being too timid and too slow to address violations of fundamental rights, while conservatives claim its interference is harming the war effort
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli soldiers gather at the gate to the Sde Teiman military base, as people protest in support of soldiers arrested over suspicions of detainee abuse, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)
October 21, 2024, 10:49 pm
US probing IDF unit for alleged abuse at detention facility, jeopardizing aid
State Dept. checking whether Force 100, tasked with guarding terror suspects at Sde Teiman base, violated human rights — if so, future aid would violate US’s ‘Leahy Law’
By ToI Staff
Journalists film in front of destroyed buildings in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 9, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
October 18, 2024, 10:41 am
UN rights chief claims IDF evacuation orders in northern Gaza may be ‘war crime’
Volker Turk says directives could constitute ‘forcible transfer’ of civilians if not done for strictly military purposes; IDF says dozens of terror operatives killed Thursday
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This undated photo taken in winter 2023 and provided by Breaking the Silence, a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers, shows blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. (Breaking The Silence via AP)
September 18, 2024, 6:29 pm
High Court declines to shutter Sde Teiman, orders state to abide by law for detainees
Court notes that conditions at detention facility have improved since petition was filed, says maintaining rule of law distinguishes Israel from its enemies
By Jeremy Sharon
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
Portraits are exhibited behind a noose as a placard reads, 'Executions pro day,' in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a demonstration by supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Berlin, Germany on February 10, 2024. (STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)
September 2, 2024, 11:05 pm
UN experts express alarm as they say Iran executed more than 400 people this year
Iran not complying with international execution requirements as 41 people put to death over drug offenses in August alone, say independent experts
By AFP
Palestinian journalists carry mock coffins of Palestinian journalists who were killed during the current war in Gaza during a symbolic funeral toward a United Nations office, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
August 26, 2024, 11:35 am
Media, human rights groups urge EU to suspend accords with Israel, impose sanctions
60 organizations accuse Israel of killing ‘unprecedented number’ of journalists, committing other press freedom violations as it fights Hamas; IDF says it never targets journalists
By AFP and ToI Staff
Israeli journalist Yehuda Schlesinger speaks on a Channel 12 news broadcast on August 7, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 8, 2024, 6:10 pm
Israeli journalist retracts call for ‘policy’ of sodomizing Palestinian terror suspects
Israel Hayom writer Yehuda Schlesinger says his comments on Channel 12 over suspected sodomy of Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman detention facility were ‘wrong’ and a ‘mistake’
By ToI Staff
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
This video grab shows Mohammed Abu Selmia, former director of Shifa Hospital, who was detained by Israeli forces in November, sitting with his family after his release, along with other detainees, at a hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip on Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)
July 5, 2024, 4:56 pm
Released Gaza detainees allege torture in Israeli facilities
Former inmates say they were subjected to electric shocks, deprived of bathroom access; Israel denies torture, but is probing detention facility
By Agencies and ToI Staff
IDF soldiers tie injured Palestinian detainee to hood of car after an operation in the West Bank, June 22, 2024. (X, formerly Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 24, 2024, 10:52 pm
US condemns ‘shocking’ video of Palestinian tied to hood of IDF car in West Bank
State Dept. calls for those responsible to be held accountable, pans Smotrich effort to expand Israeli civilian control in West Bank
By Jacob Magid
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