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Illustrative: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani makes a World Cup soccer tournament announcement in New York City, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/ Adam Gray)
July 23, 2026, 2:03 am
Mamdani’s vision of NY as ‘a city of international law’ runs up against reality
More than a year and half after pledging to arrest Netanyahu, New York City mayor forced to reckon with foreign courts’ irrelevance in US
By Luke Tress
An Israeli soldier takes a photograph with his mobile phone during clashes with Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
May 18, 2026, 3:15 pm
IDF struggles to throttle endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media
Troops keep recording their own misconduct, including smashing a statue of Jesus in Lebanon, but the army claims progress in curbing posts that fuel international criticism and risk operational security
By Stav Levaton
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (left) is seen at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 14, 2026. (Jamal Awad/Flash90); National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir tours the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during Jerusalem Day celebrations on May 14, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 17, 2026, 3:23 pm
ICC denies ‘inaccurate’ report it issued warrants for Smotrich and Ben Gvir
Haaretz says three additional warrants issued for unnamed politician and military officials; court reportedly sought ministers’ arrest over West Bank settlements last year
By Jeremy Sharon, ToI Staff and Agencies
A man and a woman walk past destroyed buildings following airstrikes in central Tehran, on March 4, 2026. (AFP)
March 5, 2026, 12:21 pm
To some, legally problematic strikes on Iran clear a higher bar: morality
A strict reading of the UN charter appears to back critics who say US-Israeli strikes on Iran are illegal. But experts say a dogmatic approach to international law fails in the face of tyranny
By Jeremy Sharon
A person flies a national flag in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 3, 2026, after US forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. (Federico PARRA / AFP)
January 4, 2026, 4:38 am
Was it legal? Questions abound as US captures Maduro, says it will ‘run’ Venezuela
With no historic precedent, experts say Trump administration’s stated intention to manage the country contradicts its claim that the military action was a law enforcement operation
By LISA MASCARO, Joshua Goodman and Ben Finley
Israeli F-35 fighter jets return to the Nevatim Airbase after carrying out an airstrike in Yemen, July 20, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 3, 2025, 1:45 pm
Dutch court orders government to reconsider its halt in supply of F-35 parts to Israel
Netherlands’ Supreme Court says district judges overstepped when they banned shipments over risk of international law violations in Gaza; government given 6 weeks to reassess
By AP and ToI Staff
This frame grab taken from an AFPTV footage shows smoke billowing after an Israeli strike in Doha's capital Qatar on September 9, 2025. (Photo by Jacqueline PENNEY / AFPTV / AFP)
September 12, 2025, 9:30 am
Striking out: Legality of Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders in Doha called into question
Doctrine of ‘unwilling and unable’ allows states to strike in non-hostile countries, but Doha has insisted Israel knew about and even requested Hamas leaders’ presence there
By Jeremy Sharon
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
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
Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court President Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)
August 11, 2025, 2:51 pm
Top IDF lawyer said to warn Gaza takeover will put army in charge of daily life there
Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, military advocate general, reportedly cautions that Israel will be responsible for everything from aid to education if it conquers Strip
By ToI Staff
Deputy Attorney General for International Law Gilad Noam, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, Chief Military Advocate Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi. (Photos by Nick Gammon / AFP, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 9, 2025, 1:21 pm
Opinion: Israel is committing war crimes – and its legal heads remain silent
The silence of Israel’s three senior legal officials charged with ensuring that Israel’s military operations comply with the rules of international law is indefensible
By Yuval Yoaz
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in an interview with ABC aired July 27, 2025. (Screenshot/ABC)
July 27, 2025, 7:31 pm
Australian PM: Israel has ‘quite clearly’ breached international law in Gaza
Albanese says his country doesn’t plan to ‘imminently’ recognize a Palestinian state, Hamas terror group is ‘abhorrent’ and can have ‘no role in a future state’
By ToI Staff
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
An Israeli Air Force fighter jet takes off for strikes in Iran, June 18, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 19, 2025, 3:08 pm
Do Tehran’s nuclear program and terror proxies legally justify Israel’s attack?
Despite years of Iranian aggression, questions have been posed by international scholars about whether Israel had legal justification to launch Operation Rising Lion
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli air defense system fires to intercept Iranian missiles over Tel Aviv, June 13, 2025. (AP/Leo Correa)
June 17, 2025, 4:17 am
Deadly Iranian missile barrages likely flout key principles of laws of war
Casualties from Iran’s missile attacks have been almost exclusively civilian; many of Tehran’s missiles are highly inaccurate yet are fired at residential neighborhoods
By Jeremy Sharon
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