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Iran: Ongoing Unlawful Execution Campaign Against Protesters (opens the original)
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* Within a span of only five months, between March 18 and the end of August 2026, Iran’s authorities announced the executions of 29 people in connection with recent protests. These executions were unlawful and in violation of international human rights law. Several protesters executed were teenagers aged 18 and 19. Scores more remain at imminent risk of execution. Some executions have been carried out in public to further instill fear, marking a significant escalation. * Executions have followed
West Bank: Israel-Backed Settler Violence Drives Displacement (opens the original)
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Record Year for Settler Attacks on Palestinians Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank are increasingly driving the forced displacement of Palestinian communities, with dozens at risk of erasure, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli authorities are arming, funding, and granting impunity to the violent settlers responsible for these escalating deadly abuses. Settler violence spiked in March and April 2026, with killings, including of children, as well as a
Lebanon: Israel's Killing of Journalist fits Definition of War Crime (opens the original)
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* The Israeli military’s April 22, 2026 attacks in Lebanon that killed one journalist and severely injured another included apparently deliberate attacks on civilians which would make them war crimes. *Israeli forces’ continued killing of journalists shows a brazen willingness to commit atrocities without any fear of consequences. *The Lebanese government should accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and submit a declaration accepting the court’s jurisdiction including si
West Bank: Israel Delaying Palestinian Ambulances Risks Lives (opens the original)
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Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Israeli road closures in the West Bank on July 27, 2026, badly delayed an ambulance transporting a pregnant Palestinian woman in critical condition, with dire consequences, Human Rights Watch said today. The woman’s fetus did not survive an emergency delivery, and her life was further endangered when soldiers forced the ambulance crew to turn off their medical equipment for at least 20 minutes. From January to June, the World Health Organization documented 50 case
Israeli Defense Ministry Plan Indicates War Crimes (opens the original)
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( Human Rights Watch ) – Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the Israeli military on July 28 to take control of another Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank without identifying which one. He has said the operation should follow the “Tulkarem, Nur Shams and Jenin model.” Those words indicate more expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and so more potential ethnic cleansing and war crimes. The Israeli army expelled the residents of Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and Jenin refugee camps
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