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The Majdal Shams attack, also known as the Majdal Shams massacre, [1][2] took place on 27 July 2024, when a rocket hit a football pitch in Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. [a] The resulting blast killed 12 Syrian children and young adults belonging to the Druze community [4][5][6] and injured at least 42 others, [7][8] with ...
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]
A group of United Nations experts expressed alarm regarding the increasing volume of allegations of sexual violence reportedly perpetrated by armed groups against women and girls in Israel on October 7, 2023, and reports of sexual assault and threats of sexual violence against women in the occupied Palestinian territories since October 7. [7]
Haditha massacre. The Haditha massacre was a series of killings on November 19, 2005, in which a group of United States Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians. [1][2] The killings occurred in the city of Haditha in Iraq 's western province of Al Anbar. Among the dead were men, women, elderly people and children as young as three years old ...
A man tells how in Gudauta, Abkhaz killed small children and then cut off their heads to play football with them. These themes are repeated in many separate accounts. [34] The Human Rights Watch report drafted in 1995 included a detailed account of the war crimes and atrocities committed during the war.
According to a press release by the United Nations Security Council on 19 June 2008, [2]. The Security Council today demanded the “immediate and complete cessation by all parties to armed conflict of all acts of sexual violence against civilians,” expressing its deep concern that, despite repeated condemnation, violence and sexual abuse of women and children trapped in war zones was not ...
The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were a series of war crimes committed by five U.S. Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family on March 12, 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village ...
All of these are just lies. All these names were created to back the strong against the weak; the oppressor against the oppressed." [139] Eight people were killed in an attack on an aid warehouse on 14 March. [140] Wounded people, including children, were taken to the Al-Aqsa Hospital following an Israeli airstrike on 15 March. [141]