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Israeli forces are blocking aid — and "systematically razed" farmland across Gaza, watchdog group reports

Israel kept up heavy bombing of Gaza on Monday as it faced accusations from a human rights group that it is deliberately starving Palestinians in its campaign sparked by the October 7 Hamas attacks.

Human Rights Watch urges world to speak out against ‘abhorrent war crime’. Israel brands the NGO ‘anti-Semitic’.

Former British Defence Secretary warns Israeli attacks against Palestinians risk 'fuelling the conflict for another 50 years'

Since December 7, images of Palestinians arrested and stripped naked in Gaza by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have provoked widespread concern. Israeli authorities say they undressed the detainees as a security measure, but that photos of them in their underwear "serve nobody". The images have sparked debate on the…

Editorial: Soaring violence is creating an explosive situation that can only be peacefully defused with a just political solution

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International claim that authorities failed to mobilise ‘appropriate resources’, while Greece says the ship’s crew refused assistance

Israel’s military is accused of using white phosphorous in an October attack on the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, which allegedly injured at least nine civilians.

Two leading international human rights groups are accusing Greek authorities of failing to properly investigate the circumstances around a migrant boat sinking six months ago that killed hundreds

Human Rights Day is observed on Dec. 10 every year to commemorate the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, known as the first enunciation of human rights in the world.

France wants clarification about a missile strike in southern Lebanon on 13 October that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from French news agency AFP.