Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amid continuing genocide in Gaza, UN Commission of Inquiry finds (OHCHR, 2026-10-26)

ohchr.org/en/press-releases/20…

Report of the Independent International Commission of
Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem, and Israel (pdf)
ohchr.org/sites/default/files/…
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>> Israel has committed war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, intentionally targeting Palestinian civilians as it continues to commit genocide in Gaza, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today...

#palestine #oPt #OHCHR #WestBank #Gaza
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OHCHR press release (2026-10-26)
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/20…

Report of the Independent International Commission of
Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem, and Israel (pdf)
ohchr.org/sites/default/files/…

#palestine #oPt #OHCHR
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#Israel's 2026 #Knesset #election is today. It's an #apartheid election: Israeli settlers in the #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories can vote. #Palestinians in the #OPT cannot.

The #ExitPoll won't be released until after voting closes at 8pm GMT. But it is already known that >95% of votes will be cast for parties which support the illegal occupation of the #WestBank & #Gaza, and #genocide in Gaza.

This electon is not about whether to stop genocide. It is about who leads the genocide.

#politics

#usa #ireland #israel #palestine : #opt / #gaza / #westbank / #sanctions / #ngo / #amnestyinternational

“States have a clear obligation to act to end Israel’s violations against Palestinians. Rejecting any involvement in Israel’s #genocide, #apartheid and other international crimes, requires courage and conviction as states in Europe continue opens in a new tab to crackdown opens in a new tab on this vital activism opens in a new tab.
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#usa #israel #palestine : #gaza / #westbank / #opt / #armssale / #politicalparty / #foreignpolicy

„The top Democrats on the House and Senate foreign affairs committees this week announced their intent to block a $2.8 billion sale of 60,000 one-ton bombs to Israel. It’s an unusual move — and one with limited power beyond the procedural sphere. But it shows that even pro-Israel Democrats are concerned that US-funded weapons are being used to commit #warcrimes.“

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#israel #palestine : #gaza / #westbank / #opt / #dailylife / #resistance / #photography / #magnum / #sakirkhader

(Palestinian photographer and filmmaker Sakir Khader has regularly traveled to the Nablus & Jenin regions, which are under Israeli occupation. For several years, he has documented the living conditions of the youngest in this context of ongoing violence.)

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🗨️ Here's the homepage link to Balasan Initiative for Human Rights (BIHR) - an independent, non-partisan Palestinian #humanrights initiative duly registered in #palestine, founded with the objective of promoting human rights across the occupied Palestinian territory #oPt indiscriminately and as set forth under #internationallaw

BIHR is also shedding light on the effects of the current situation on Palestinian #christians

👩🏽‍💻 Please check out and share, it is urgent! 👇🏽

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Chris Sidoti of the #UN Independent Int'l Commission of Inquiry on the #oPT, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, reflects on the Commission’s latest report on #children, calling it “the most difficult of the 17 reports that the Commission has produced”

Speaking personally, he describes the cases that stayed with him most deeply, includ. Israeli children killed in 2023 and Palestinian children killed, injured and starved in #gaza and the #westbank

#palestine #ihl

youtube.com/watch?v=Cx9Puspn7f…

#israel #palestine : #gaza / #westbank / #opt / #humanrights / #torture / #ngo / #internationallaw

„[O]neg Ben Dror from the prisoner and detainees department at Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) [said:] The photo “confirms what thousands of testimonies from Palestinian #detainees have exposed, and what we and other organisations have been reporting for nearly three years now,” she added. “Israeli detention facilities are torture camps for Palestinians.”

theguardian.com/world/2026/jul…

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#egypt #israel #palestine : #gaza / #opt / #destruction / #ngo / #icrc / #statement

„The first thing that you see when you come into the Gaza strip is just the scale of the destruction.

The scale of the destruction that, we've been witnessing going from Rafah, which doesn’t exist anymore to further north, where you do not see a single building that has not been affected by the fighting over the past two & a half years, and it is still going on.

The second thing ...”

icrc.org/en/statement/sufferin…

🔴 #live Join Doctors Against Genocide (DAG) for a powerful #webinar feat. Ahmed Muin Abu Amsha, founder of Gaza Birds Singing, who uses #music w/ displaced #children in #gaza as a form of survival and #resistance, and Dr. Mansoor Malik, presenting his canceled lecture, “From Microaggression to Mass Violence: Psychological Autopsy of the Gaza #genocide,” confronting the #silence of medical and psychiatric institutions in the face of mass suffering in the #oPt #palestine

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Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on Israel’s decision to establish military facilities at the UNRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound | Secretary-General (#UN, 2026-05-20)

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>> The Secretary-General condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli authorities’ decision to establish military facilities at the UNRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound in East Jerusalem that they had seized in January.

>> … the #UNRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound remains United Nations premises. These unprecedented and escalatory measures against UNRWA are a breach of the inviolability of United Nations premises…

>> Such actions, as affirmed by the International Court of Justice, are unlawful. The State of Israel is not entitled to exercise sovereign powers in any part of the occupied Palestinian territory …

#oPt #StopIsraelNow #palestine
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📲 Claudio Francavilla of HRW outlines the European Union’s political and legal obligations in response to atrocities in #gaza and the wider Occupied Palestinian Territory #oPt

🔹 He argues that #EU member states, all parties to the #UN Genocide Convention, have a duty to act once they are aware of a serious risk of #genocide, stressing that a final legal determination is not required

#palestine #law #news #icj
#germany #france #warcrimes

Video: UN Palestine Committee

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" ‘Genocide has two phases,’ Lemkin wrote in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. The first involves the ‘destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group’ – this was achieved in #Gaza by #Israel’s devastating bombing. The second involves the imposition of a design by the oppressor, like these reconstruction plans for Gaza."

#EyalWeizman | "All they will find is sand: Gaza's #YellowLine"

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#Palestine #oPt #GazaGenocide #colonialViolence

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #opt / #genocide / #humanitarianaid / #blockade / #uno / #unga / #unwra / #funding

»"I must inform you that UNRWA may soon no longer be viable, with potentially far-reaching consequences for Palestine #Refugees at a time when the region faces seismic political and security challenges," Lazzarini said in a letter to the President of the U.N. General Assembly dated March 17.«

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📌 📑 Euro-Med #humanrights Monitor has documented that the Israeli army has destroyed 93.5 per cent of cemeteries in the Gaza Strip, either completely or partially, in the context of the ongoing #genocide since OCT-2023

🔹 Euro-Med Monitor analysed #data from 62 official cemeteries across the Gaza Strip’s five governorates

🔹 Findings show that the widespread, direct destruction of cemeteries in #gaza was neither incidental nor justified by “military necessity” 👇🏽

#oPt

euromedmonitor.org/en/article/…

#usa #lebanon #israel #palestine : #gaza / #westbank / #opt / #middlewast / #refugees / #uno / #unwra / #funding

„The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees' schools and health centers have had to reduce their services by 20% due to insufficient funding. Its donors have come under pressure from the US and Israel, both of which have accused UNRWA of collusion with Hamas.“

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Prime source #IFRC #RedCrossRedCrescent 👇🏽

📑 STATEMENT: IFRC outraged by the killing of a Palestine Red Crescent colleague in #gaza

#press release
#emergencyresponse #firstaid
#ihl
#genevaconvention
#palestine #oPt

(Publ. FEB-04 2026)

ifrc.org/article/statement-ifr…

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #opt / #genocide / #idf / #warcrimes / #uno / #ocha / #eyewitnessreport

„Olga Cherevko grew up on military bases in Siberia, belonged to a Christian cult in the U.S. and was sent by the UN to some of the toughest places in the world. None of that prepared her for what she saw in Gaza.“

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