12 November 2025 | Featured, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Key Documents & Letters, Key Media Coverage
Outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Palestine’s legal representative Paul Reichler tells Middle East Eye’s News Editor Sondos Asem that the ICJ’s advisory opinion on 22 October was a ‘historic’ affirmation of Israel’s legal obligations. He says the Court found Israel in breach of its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention for imposing a total blockade on Gaza between March and May 2025, causing starvation and humanitarian collapse. Reichler describes the ruling as a landmark clarification of Israel’s duties as an occupying power, and a warning that its conduct in Gaza violates international humanitarian law.
1 September 2025 | Featured, Key Events, Key Media Coverage
Avaaz/Reporters Without Borders (RSF)—Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the emergency evacuation of reporters seeking to leave the Strip, an end to impunity for Israeli crimes against Gaza’s reporters and that foreign press be granted independent access to the territory.
5 July 2025 | Featured, Key Documents & Letters
Originally published: 15 March 2024. Latest update: 5 July 2025.
“I, Lee Mordechai, write this document as a historian and Israeli citizen, as my testimony to the horrible current situation in Gaza as events are unfolding. I write my personal opinion as an academic, partially because of the disappointing general silence on this issue among many international and Israeli academic institutions, especially those that are well-positioned to comment on it, even as some of my colleagues have bravely spoken out. I do not believe this document will convince many others to change their minds. Rather, I write this publicly to testify that during the war there were and remain Israeli voices who strongly dissented from Israel’s actions.”
12 February 2025 | Featured, Key Media Coverage, Notable Events
A shocking collection of before and after drone footage from the skies above Gaza, showing the scale of Israel’s genocidal war and its clear genocidal intent to make the Strip unliveable for the pre-October 7th population of 2.2 to 2.3 million Gazans.
30 October 2024 | Early Genocide Red Flags, Featured, International Actions, Notable Events
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Pascale Christine Baeriswyl (Switzerland).
1 October 2024 | Featured, Key Documents & Letters
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt, writes: “Genocide is a complex and insidious crime; proving destructive intent is an onerous task – yet not when it is so ostentatious, sustained by a political doctrine of ideological hatred and articulated through institutional structures and policies.”
