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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Israel to halt the use of white phosphorus munitions, reporting their use over civilian homes in Yohmor, a southern town in Lebanon, on March 3. HRW’s accusation of white phosphorus use is backed by seven images of airburst chemical munitions, which the rights group verified and geolocated. In one [...]

Human Rights Watch said Monday that the Israel’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 constitute war crimes. The extensive report documented four specific strikes between August and October that killed three civilians and destroyed over 360 pieces of heavy machinery and a major cement factory. The attacks [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement on Thursday calling on the Lebanese authorities to immediate release Hannibal Gaddafi, who has been held in pre-trial detention for 10 years. HRW reported that Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was detained by Internal Security Forces in December 2015 “on apparently unsubstantiated allegations that he [...]

Two Israeli attacks in Lebanon between September and November 2024 appear to be indiscriminate attacks against civilians and should be investigated as war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirmed on Wednesday. HRW states that the two Israeli strikes on the town of Younine are evidence of the failure of Israeli forces to distinguish military targets [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday that Israeli attacks against Lebanon have damaged significant infrastructure, preventing thousands of Lebanese from returning home. According to Lebanon researcher at HRW, Ramzi Kaiss, Israeli attacks since October 2023 have damaged both civilian households and public infrastructure necessary to ensure basic services. Kaiss said: “Even if their houses [...]

Non-governmental organizations championed by Human Rights Watch released a letter on Monday addressed to the United Nations-mandated Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, urging that the Commission look into the killing of Lebanese civilians, including the journalist Issam Abdallah, by the Israeli military in October 2023. Abdallah was [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the use of white phosphorus by Israel in south Lebanon on Wednesday, stating that it harms and displaces civilians. HRW reported that Israel has used white phosphorus in 17 municipalities since October 2023, which include heavily populated neighborhoods. HRW concluded after conducting investigations and interviews that airburst munitions containing white [...]

A US military judge ruled on Thursday that Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a 9/11 defendant detained in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is unfit to stand trial. Military Judge Colonel Matthew N. McCall’s ruling comes after a medical panel found that al-Shibh has PTSD with “Secondary Psychotic Features” resulting from his abuse in Central Intelligence [...]

Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi appeared before a secret government tribunal on Thursday, seeking to be released from his detention. Slahi, who was one of only two Guantanamo prisoners to endure a Rumsfeld approved "special interrogation...

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks testified on Friday that he has been subject to torment and mistreatment by prison guards. Ramzi bin al Shibh, from Yemen, is facing the death penalty with four other...