accountability
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PoliticsQatar's emir calls for accountability for genocide in Gaza
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani demands justice as Israeli attacks continue despite the October 2025 ceasefire agreement.
RightsPrisoners' groups: Gaza detainees' fate hidden for a third year
Israel's prison service lists 1,358 Gazans as "unlawful combatants". The death in custody of the journalist Ehab Diab came to light only after a petition to Israel's Supreme Court.
WorldCalls to investigate 40 Israeli soldiers who ran in Sydney
Campaigners say Australia's own visa rules allow entry to be refused over suspected involvement in war crimes, and want to know how the rules were applied here.
RightsSouth Africa asks other governments to act on the ICJ's orders
Pretoria says Israel has defied all three sets of provisional measures issued in 2024, and that the duty to enforce them was never the court's alone.
RightsRights centre puts Gaza's forcibly disappeared at up to 3,000
A study of 317 documented cases traces where people vanished: home raids, displacement routes, checkpoints and the queues for food.
South Africa tells the ICJ that Israel has ignored its orders
A dossier filed on 25 August says Palestinians are still being denied water, medicine and care, and that one child has been killed on average every day since the ceasefire.
RightsA year on, Mariam Abu Dagga's killing is still unexplained
The journalist died with at least five colleagues at Nasser Medical Complex; the Israeli military says its own review is still running, and her family wants an independent inquiry.
RightsChild deaths in Gaza pass 20,000 with no soldier prosecuted
An analysis in the Israeli press puts the number of under-18s killed since October 2023 above 20,000, an average of about 28 a day, and argues that military inquiries are opened mainly where foreign attention has already fallen. More than 2,000 families have been struck off Gaza's civil registry altogether.
Turkey seeks an Interpol red notice for Netanyahu's arrest
Justice Minister Akin Gurlek says warrants have been issued for the Israeli prime minister and a second suspect on charges including genocide, in an Istanbul case with 35 defendants over the interception of an aid convoy at sea.
Poland summons Israel's ambassador over closed aid-worker inquiry
Warsaw says prosecutors in Przemysl are pursuing a case of their own and have asked Israel to hand over evidence. Australia called in Israel's ambassador on Thursday, and Canada called the closure unacceptable.
RightsRights monitor faults Israeli inquiries into five attacks in Gaza
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says the army examined itself through a body answering to its own General Staff, and opened a criminal case in only two of the five files. Thirty-five people were killed in them.
RightsIsrael opens a criminal inquiry into Hind Rajab's killing
Nine people were killed that day in January 2024 — the girl, six of her relatives and the two medics sent to reach her. Her grandmother has rejected the inquiry and asked for an independent international one instead.
RightsDamascus court sentences Wassim al-Assad to death for murder
The ruling came at the sixth hearing since his arrest at the Lebanese border last year, ordered every asset he holds transferred to the treasury, and cleared him on the drug charges for want of evidence.
RightsRemoval of millions of tonnes of Gaza rubble raises evidence concerns
Rights organisations warn the clearance could destroy material evidence.