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Shortly after the beginning of the Israel–Hamas war, the Hamas-allied group began to launch missiles and drones at Israel. Houthi militants have also fired on various countries' merchant vessels in the Red Sea, and particularly in the Bab-el-Mandeb —the southern maritime gateway to the Suez Canal of Egypt and therefore a chokepoint of the ...
The vast majority of Israeli airstrikes are aimed at the Gaza Strip, but smaller munitions, such as from drones and helicopters, are occasionally used in the West Bank region. In 2001, PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa was killed by two rockets fired from two Israeli Apache helicopters through his two office windows, as he sat at his desk in his ...
The size and lasting impact of the systematic and intentional destruction of agriculture in Gaza have led to calls by the research group Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network for the Israeli Government to be investigated for the Rome Statute war crime of ecocide for "widespread ...
During the early stages of the war, a video described as “Hamas executes people by throwing them off a roof of a building!” was shared widely on social media. [29] But the video did not depict Hamas, or any other group based in Palestine, it was a misrepresented video of ISIS in Iraq, from 2015. [29]
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the ...
As of 8 September 2024, over 42,000 people (40,972 Palestinian [11] and 1,478 Israeli [23]) have been reported as killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 116 journalists according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (111 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese) [24], 134 journalists and media workers according to the International Federation of Journalists (127 Palestinian, 4 Israeli and ...
Armenia built its own drones, but these were greatly inferior to the Turkish and Israeli drones owned by Azerbaijan. [135] Azerbaijan had a quantitative advantage in artillery systems, particularly self-propelled guns and long-range multiple rocket launchers , while Armenia had a minor advantage in tactical ballistic missiles . [ 22 ]
The Joint Arab-Islamic Summit urged the International Criminal Court's prosecutor to "thoroughly investigate the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel against the Palestinians." [218] Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the attack on an ambulance near al-Shafa Hospital should be investigated as a possible war crime. [219]