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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk reminded world leaders on Sunday that a general assault by Israel in the Gazan city of Rafah “cannot be reconciled with the binding demands of international humanitarian law, or the binding provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).” Türk’s statement came just a day [...]

Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday announced the country intends to file a declaration of intervention in South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Egypt’s announcement follows several other countries’ requests to intervene in the case. In their statement, the ministry said the intervention comes in light of Israel’s [...]

South Africa made an application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday requesting additional provisional measures and the modification of previous provisional measures against Israel. The request came after the recent Israeli military incursion in Rafah and an order from Israel for refugees to evacuate Rafah. The new measures call for Israel to [...]

A senior Philippine national security official called Friday for the immediate removal of Chinese diplomats believed to be responsible for a reported leak of a phone call between one of the diplomats and a Filipino admiral about tensions in the South China Sea. This comes just over a week following alleged Chinese harassment and use [...]

Thousands of people marched in Tel Aviv on Thursday to demand a ceasefire and hostage deal, as well as a revived Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The march was led by Standing Together, a joint Jewish-Palestinian peace movement in Israel. Alon Lee-Green, the group’s Jewish co-director, said the march, composed of both Jewish and Palestinian protestors, was [...]

“Scholars build the structure of peace in the world.” Babylonian Talmud, Order Zera’im, Tractate Berakoth IX The irony is unparalleled. From the beginning, human beings have directed much greater attention to conspicuous consumption than to viable “architectures” of planetary survival. The errors of this inverted hierarchy are magnified by the growing urgency of nuclear war [...]

The Amsterdam police said Thursday that they ended the occupation of a building at the campus of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) by pro-Palestinian student activists. This followed a week in which students rallied and demonstrated on campus, and were interrupted by riot police. The demonstrations mainly aimed to protest the decision given by the [...]

Australia and Tuvalu released a joint statement Thursday announcing new commitments to improve security relations and remove the veto power Australia previously had over the tiny island nation’s security relations with other countries. The announcement addressed the implementation and interpretation of the Falepili Union, a bilateral treaty which was entered into on November 9, 2023 [...]

Police at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) arrested Thursday eight people who were protesting the Israel-Hamas war and asking college administrators to terminate all research contracts involving Israel’s Ministry of Defense. In order to urge the college’s immediate response, protestors blocked the entrance of the campus parking garage, for which the school issued an [...]

Attacks by Islamist armed groups and ethnic militias in Mali violate international humanitarian law and are apparent war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Wednesday. One such attack in January 2024, by an Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist armed group, killed at least 32 civilians, including 3 children and setting fire to over 350 [...]