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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 621

war crimes

Israeli air defense system fires to intercept Iranian missiles over Tel Aviv, June 13, 2025. (AP/Leo Correa)
Jeremy Sharon
Analysis
Jeremy Sharon
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
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
Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli strike in Gaza City, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
June 3, 2025, 6:38 pm
Canadian authorities confirm opening probe last year into alleged war crimes in Gaza
Royal Canadian Mounted Police tells Toronto-based newspaper the investigation started in early 2024, but declines to offer any further details, findings
By ToI Staff
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller answers questions during a news briefing at the State Department on July 18, 2023, in Washington. (AP/Nathan Howard)
June 2, 2025, 10:11 pm
Ex-top Biden official: No genocide in Gaza, but Israel ‘without doubt’ committed war crimes
Former State Dept. spokesperson Matthew Miller says it’s an ‘open question’ whether Israel pursued a policy of war crimes, but that there are certainly cases in which they occurred
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Left to right: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan attends a UN Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York, January 27, 2025 (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP); National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on Jerusalem Day, May 26, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90).
May 28, 2025, 11:01 am
ICC prosecutor was readying warrants for Smotrich, Ben Gvir before his leave – report
Karim Khan, being probed for sexual misconduct, said to have been preparing war crimes charges against finance and national security ministers for promoting West Bank settlements
By ToI Staff
Palestinians mourn the death of people killed in an Israeli airstrike outside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 18, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
May 27, 2025, 3:23 pm
800 British judges and lawyers call for UK to sanction Israel over Gaza conflict
In a letter to UK’s PM Starmer, legal professionals accuse Israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity, say UK has obligation to act
By Jeremy Sharon
Ehud Olmert testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 21, 2025, 10:45 am
Former PM Olmert tells BBC Israeli actions in Gaza ‘close to a war crime’
Comments criticizing war spark immediate backlash from right-wing politicians, who accuse him of ‘stabbing soldiers in the back’
By ToI Staff
An IDF soldier stands over a Palestinian suspect in Gaza in undated footage uploaded to social media on February 2, 2024. (Screen capture/X)
April 10, 2025, 8:42 am
Amassing troops’ own clips from Gaza, anti-Israel activists are keeping heat on soldiers
Databases exposing soldiers are being compiled using networks to ensure they can’t be squelched as alleged evidence for war crimes charges. Is Israel doing enough to protect its veterans?
By MILAN CZERNY and Shomrim
IDF troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in the northern Gaza Strip in a handout photo issued on April 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 8, 2025, 9:00 am
Dossier accusing 10 Britons serving in IDF of war crimes in Gaza handed to UK police
240-page file claims IDF troops, some of them officers, were involved in indiscriminate and targeted attacks against civilians, displacement; British police says assessing matter
By Michael Horovitz
A demonstrator holds up a placard with Prime Minister Netanyahu behind bars and Italian for, 'Criminal against humanity, let's arrest him now,' at an anti-Israel rally in Rome on November 30, 2024. (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
February 25, 2025, 10:55 am
Doxxing soldiers, but failing to put them in dock: Hind Rajab group has some on edge
Organization run by Hezbollah backers has failed to realize its goal of having IDF troops arrested abroad, but may be making inroads in the court of public opinion
By ToI Staff
Troops of the Kfir Brigade operate in the northern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on January 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 9, 2025, 12:17 am
Amid efforts abroad to prosecute combat soldiers, IDF to try to conceal their identities
Troops under rank of brigadier general to have faces blurred, names hidden when interviewed, but no action taken against core source of info — social media posts by soldiers themselves
By Emanuel Fabian
Yuval Vagdani, the Israeli soldier who was forced to flee Brazil after a war crimes probe was opened against him by the Brazilian government. (Social media; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
January 8, 2025, 4:55 pm
IDF soldier who escaped war crimes investigation in Brazil arrives in Israel
Yuval Vagdani was subject of probe for allegedly filming himself destroying residential building in Gaza; says having to flee Brazil ‘felt a little like a bullet in the heart’
By ToI Staff
Troops of the 99th Division operate in central Gaza, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on January 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 6, 2025, 5:27 am
12 complaints said filed against IDF soldiers abroad over alleged war crimes in Gaza
None of the cases have yielded arrests; after latest incident in Brazil, Israel said to set up joint desk to assess and respond to legal threats to traveling ex-troops
By ToI Staff
Sri Lankan street hawkers sell national flags ahead of the country's 73rd independence anniversary in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (AP/Eranga Jayawardena)
December 20, 2024, 10:53 am
IDF soldier told to flee Sri Lanka after anti-Israel group seeks his arrest
Hind Rajab Foundation files complaint against Gal Ferenbook to Sri Lankan government, ICC and Interpol alleging he killed Gazan after he posted video online showing dead body
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Syrian fighters from rebel group, observe a location identified as a mass grave for detainees killed under rule of Bashar Assad in Najha, south of Damascus, Syria, December 17, 2024. (AP Photo/ Hussein Malla)
December 17, 2024, 10:17 pm
War crimes prosecutor says Syrian mass graves expose Assad’s ‘machinery of death’
‘We really haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Nazis,’ says top prosecutor after visit to mass grave; says more than 100,000 people disappeared, tortured to death
By Timour Azhari and Anthony Deutsch
Col. Moshe Tetro speaks during a briefing at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza on January 10, 2024. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
December 3, 2024, 11:25 pm
Pro-Palestinian group files war crimes complaint against new IDF attaché in Brussels
Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation claims Col. Moshe Tetro implemented policy of starvation as head of COGAT in Gaza; IDF rejects allegations, says ‘Tetro is highly respected’
By ToI Staff
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