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Canada: support an immediate ceasefire by all parties in the occupied Gaza Strip and Israel KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - OCTOBER 19: Palestinian emergency services and local citizens search for victims in buildings destroyed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on October 19, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Gazans are evacuating to the south as advised by the Israeli government, ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images).

Call on Canada to work towards an immediate ceasefire by all parties in the occupied Gaza Strip and Israel

We are witnessing horror unfolding on an unimaginable scale in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Write to the Prime...

Family and friends of May Naim, 24, who was murdered by Palestinians militants at the "Supernova" festival, near the Israeli border with Gaza strip, react during her funeral on October 11, 2023 in Gan Haim, Israel. Israel has sealed off Gaza and conducted airstrikes on Palestinian territory after an attack by Hamas killed hundreds and took more than 200 hostages. © Amir Levy/Getty Images

Israel/OPT: Hamas and other armed groups must release civilian hostages and treat all captives humanely

Amnesty International reiterates its call for the immediate and unconditional release of all civilian hostages, some of them children, who...

A shell from Israeli artillery explodes over Dahaira, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says its fighters have targeted five Israeli posts along the border in the country’s south. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon: Evidence of Israel’s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate

The Israeli army fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon, in military operations along Lebanon’s southern border between...

Civilians in Gaza at unprecedented risk as Israel imposes communication black-out during bombardment and expanding ground attacks. A man carries a propane gas cylinder on his back while walking through debris and destruction littering a street in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City on October 11, 2023. Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images.

Civilians in Gaza at unprecedented risk as Israel imposes communication black-out during bombardment and expanding ground attacks

Responding to reports of a total communications blackout in the occupied Gaza Strip, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Senior Director of Research, Advocacy,...

Social media companies must step up crisis response on Israel-Palestine as online hate and censorship proliferate. An image of phones being charged by portable charging stations at Palestinian Red Crescent center as people experience electricity shortages after Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 20, 2023. Photo by Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images.

Global: Social media companies must step up crisis response on Israel-Palestine as online hate and censorship proliferate

Social media companies must urgently address the fanning of online hate and racism against Palestinian and Jewish communities, Amnesty International...

A leaflet dropped on Gaza on 21 October by the Israeli military reads in Arabic: “Anyone who chooses not to leave from the north of the [Gaza] Strip to south of Wadi Gaza may be determined an accomplice in a terrorist organization." ©private

Israel/OPT: Israeli army leaflets ordering residents of northern Gaza to leave and threatening lives may amount to war crimes

On 21 October 2023, the Israeli army dropped leaflets on northern Gaza ordering residents’ immediate “evacuation”. The leaflets warned residents...

Palestinian emergency services and local citizens search for victims in buildings destroyed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on October 19, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Gazans are evacuating to the south as advised by the Israeli government, ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza

As Israeli forces continue to intensify their cataclysmic assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International has documented unlawful Israeli...

A woman, two boys, and a man carrying a baby walking on a road in front of a bombed-out apartment building.

Open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on human rights in Gaza

Amnesty International Canada calls on the Canadian government to urge the respect of human rights in Gaza, Israel and the...
Investigating use of white phosphorus: A view of an ammunition as Israel tightens measures by the army, police and other security forces after Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in Sderot, Israel on October 09, 2023. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israel/OPT: Identifying the Israeli army’s use of white phosphorus in Gaza

Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Programme gathered compelling evidence documenting the use of white phosphorus artillery shells by the Israeli army...

States must call for an immediate ceasefire at Paris Humanitarian Conference to ensure safe delivery of aid in Gaza' > Palestinians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Appalling Gaza “evacuation order” must be rescinded by Israel immediately

The Israeli army’s order to people in northern Gaza and Gaza city to “evacuate” to the south of the Gaza...

This aerial photo shows heavily damaged buildings following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 10, 2023. (Photo by BELAL AL SABBAGH / AFP) (Photo by BELAL AL SABBAGH/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel/OPT: Israel must lift illegal and inhumane blockade on Gaza as power plant runs out of fuel

The shutdown of Gaza’s only power plant will exacerbate an already desperate humanitarian crisis for more than 2.2 million people...

GAN HAIM, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 11: Family and friends of May Naim, 24, who was murdered by Palestinian armed groups at the "Supernova" festival, near the Israeli border with Gaza strip, react during her funeral on October 11, 2023 in Gan Haim, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Palestinian armed groups must be held accountable for deliberate civilian killings, abductions and indiscriminate attacks

Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups flagrantly violated international law and displayed a chilling disregard for human life by carrying out cruel...

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