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Parachutes filled with aid boxes float down as planes drop humanitarian aid around various regions in the northern Gaza, Gaza on March 09, 2024. Photo by Omar Qattaa/Anadolu via Getty Images.

Gaza: Airdrops and sea routes are no alternative to aid delivery by land

25 NGOs call on governments to prioritize ceasefire and ground-based humanitarian aid as deaths from malnutrition and disease risk Human...

Palestinians hold out their empty containers to be filled with food, distributed by charity organizations, behind bars since they are unable to obtain basic food supplies due to the embargo imposed by Israeli forces in Rafah, Gaza on February 25, 2024. Photo by Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images.

Israel: Allow Aid into Gaza

On January 26th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) warned that people in Gaza face a real and imminent risk...

Ahmed Salem, the director of the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, has been under an aggressive smear campaign after the rights group issued a report on Egypt's construction of a fortified zone on the border with Gaza and Israel. ©Private

Egypt: Human Rights Group and its Director Threatened and Smeared Following Reports on Gaza Border Activity

The Egyptian authorities and affiliated groups have responded to recent reporting by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, an Egyptian...

Palestinians hold out their empty containers to be filled with food, distributed by charity organizations, behind bars since they are unable to obtain basic food supplies due to the embargo imposed by Israeli forces in Rafah, Gaza on February 25, 2024. Photo by Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images.

Israel defying ICJ ruling to prevent genocide by failing to allow adequate humanitarian aid to reach Gaza

One month after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered “immediate and effective measures” to protect Palestinians in the occupied...

Palestinians riding on a cart are refected on a mirror in the shape of the map of Palestine in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip on February 7, 2024 amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant Hamas group. Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images.

Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations  

Israel must end its brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it has maintained since...

Israel Must Ensure Aid Provisions Reach Gaza

On January 26, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) recognized that Palestinian civilians in Gaza are at a high risk...

Relatives of the Palestinians died in Israeli attacks, mourn as they receive the dead bodies from the morgue of Nasser Hospital for burial in Rafah, Gaza on December 19, 2023. The journalist Adel Zorob was among the people killed in Rafah city. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images.

Israel/OPT: New evidence of unlawful Israeli attacks in Rafah, Gaza causing mass civilian casualties amid real risk of genocide

Fresh evidence of deadly unlawful attacks in the occupied Gaza Strip, gathered by Amnesty International, demonstrates how Israeli forces continue...

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Meta’s Zionism/Zionist hate speech policy review must not stifle legitimate criticism of Israel’s oppressive policies 

Responding to Meta’s proposed revision of its content policies regarding use of the terms “Zionism” or “Zionist”, Alia Al Ghussain,...

People gather to stage a demonstration in support of Palestinians those who under attacks of Israel and demanding the blockade on Gaza to be lifted in Amman, Jordan on January 26, 2024. Photo by Laith Al-jnaidi/Anadolu via Getty Images.

Jordan: End draconian crackdown against pro-Palestinian activism

The Jordanian authorities must end a sweeping crackdown that has seen hundreds of people arrested by security and intelligence forces...

An Israeli soldier gestures towards a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance at the entrance of the Tulkarem refugee camp in Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, on January 17, 2024 during a military operation. Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images.

Shocking spike in use of unlawful lethal force by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

With the world’s eyes fixed on Gaza, Israeli forces have over the past four months unleashed a brutal wave of...

Smoke rises from the rubble of buildings that have been destroyed in military airstrikes

Canada ‘must not sit quietly on the sidelines’ after ICJ genocide ruling on Gaza

Amnesty International urges Canada to do more – including halting arms sales to Israel – to prevent a potential genocide...
Tents for Palestinians seeking refuge are set up on the grounds of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) centre in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 19, 2023 (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Israel/OPT: States must reverse cruel decision to withdraw UNRWA funding

The decisions by at least 9 donor countries to suspend funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), following...

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