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On 19 February 2024, a group of United Nations special rapporteurs released a report stating "rights experts call for probe into violations against Palestinian women and girls." According to the report, there is evidence that during the Israel–Hamas war, Palestinian women and girls were subjected to wartime sexual violence. [7]
In March 2024, UN Women called Israel's war on Gaza "a war on women", stating, "While this war spares no one, UN Women data shows that it kills and injures women in unprecedented ways." [35] The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 60,000 pregnant women were suffering from dehydration, malnutrition, and a lack of medical care. [36]
[63] The stabbing was deemed a hate crime. [64] In June 23, 2024, a Jewish woman in Euless, Texas attempted to drown a 3-year-old Muslim Palestinian child after making racist statements to the child's mother. [65] [66] [67] She is currently out on a $25,000 bond for attempted capital murder and $15,000 for injury of the child. [68]
In April 2024, the executive director of Amnesty International USA stated that Israel was committing war crimes using "US-made munitions" and stated the U.S. must cease weapons transfers to Israel. [47] In July 2024, Amnesty International warned that the United States was complicit in war crimes being committed in the Gaza Strip. [48]
During the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, dozens of Israeli women, girls, and men were reportedly subject to sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault by Hamas or other Gazan militants. [1] The militants involved in the attack are accused of having committed acts of gender-based violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
v. t. e. The Ustaše (pronounced [ûstaʃe]), also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, [ n 3 ] was a Croatian, fascist and ultranationalist organization [ 21 ] active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement (Croatian: Ustaša – Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret).
In May 2024, Bernie Sanders asked how the U.S. would be able to criticize other countries' human rights abuses if it ignored the "crimes against humanity" committed in Gaza. [217] In June 2024, Senator Chris Van Hollen urged sanctions against Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich during a U.S. congressional subcommittee meeting.
The attack resulted in nearly 1,200 Israeli casualties and the occupation of towns, cities, and military bases by Hamas militants leading to widespread condemnation and accusations of war crimes. [59] [46] The use of hostages, primarily women, children, and the elderly, is highlighted as a violation by Hamas of international humanitarian law. [60]