Israeli Defence Forces shells Ayta ash Shab, Aitaroun and Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon. 2024-08-24
A staff member of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security is killed and another is injured in Rafah. 2024-05-13
U.S. President Joe Biden signs an executive order imposing sanctions on four Israeli settlers in the West Bank who are implicated in acts of violence against Palestinians in the region. 2024-02-1
Egypt and Mauritania invoke United Nations Resolution 377 for the UN General Assembly to discuss an immediate humanitarian ceasefire at an emergency session in New York City, in response to the United States vetoing a UN resolution with a similar objective. 2023-12-11
The director of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City says that the medical complex is "completely cut off", with any "moving person targeted" by Israeli forces. Médecins Sans Frontières confirms reports that people are being shot at as they try to exit the hospital. Palestinian health minister Mai al-Kaila says that Israeli forces have also shelled the hospital with white phosphorus munitions which are banned under international law. 2023-11-11
Three human rights organisations, Al Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, file a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court calling for the court to consider apartheid and genocide in its investigation of the ongoing situation in Palestine. 2023-11-9
Save the Children says that children will "bear the brunt" of Israel's intensified attacks on the Gaza Strip and that in the event of a full ground incursion, more than one million children's lives, nearly half of the 2.3 million population of Gaza, will be affected. 2023-10-28
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calls on Israel to "immediately come out of its state of madness and stop its attacks" on the Gaza Strip, saying that they have "targeted women, children and innocent civilians, deepening the humanitarian crisis". 2023-10-28