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Einav Zangauker, at the Shabbat demonstration on the Tel Aviv highway calling to release all the hostages, January 24, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

‘We won’t let them sabotage this’: Hostage families fight to keep ceasefire alive

Amid fears that Netanyahu will torpedo the deal, hostage families are escalating their protests — even appealing to the ICC to intervene.

By Oren Ziv January 30, 2025

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Galant hold a joint press conference at the Ministry of Defense, in Tel Aviv. October 28, 2023. (Dana Kopel/Pool)

‘The ICC’s findings so far have only scratched the surface’

Netanyahu and Gallant's arrest warrants are a victory for international justice even if enforcement remains a challenge, says Palestinian lawyer Raji Sourani.

By Mohammed R. Mhawish November 26, 2024

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan sworn in at the seat of the International Criminal Court, 16 June 2021. (ICC-CPI)

Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed

Top Israeli government and security officials have overseen a nine-year surveillance operation targeting the ICC and Palestinian rights groups to try to thwart a war crimes probe, a joint investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham and Meron Rapoport May 28, 2024

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Palestinians hold a mass for the late journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Beit Hanina, occupied East Jerusalem, May 7, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Shireen could have been any one of us

Shireen’s killing has channeled endless energy into the hearts of Palestinian journalists, leaving us more determined to expose the atrocities of occupation.

By Vera Sajrawi May 11, 2023

Israeli authorities installing a new section of the wall around Qalqilya, occupied West Bank, replacing the existing fence which has several holes created by Palestinians for crossing into Israel for work, January 10, 2021. In 2004, the International Court of Justice stated that the West Bank wall is "illegal and must be dismantled." (Keren Manor/Activestills)

After years of diplomatic inertia, what can the ICJ offer Palestinians?

The UN’s vote to request a ruling on the occupation is an indictment of the failure to hold Israel accountable — and carries risks and opportunities alike.

By Hugh Lovatt January 1, 2023

Members of Amnesty International, including Saleh Hijazi (left) hold a press conference in Jerusalem announcing the release of the organization's report on Israeli apartheid, February 1, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Why Amnesty is taking aim at the ‘root causes’ of Israeli apartheid

Amnesty International's Saleh Hijazi speaks to +972 about his organization's new report, the Israeli government’s harsh response, and why our analysis of Israeli apartheid needs to begin from 1948.

By Edo Konrad February 1, 2022

An aerial photo of the demolition of the Khirbet Humsa community in the Jordan Valley, occupied West Bank, July 8, 2021. (Oren Ziv)

Where is the price for destroying a Palestinian village?

Diplomats can see that the new Israeli government is continuing to expel Palestinians. Why are their states still rewarding these crimes with honors?

By Sarit Michaeli July 26, 2021

Israeli security forces guard as Jews tour the Palestinian side of the Old City Market in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 15, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

‘One system, one policy’: Why Human Rights Watch is charging Israel with apartheid

Israel has made it irrefutably clear it intends to make Jewish domination over Palestinians permanent between the river and the sea, says HRW's Omar Shakir in interview following landmark report.

By Amjad Iraqi April 27, 2021

A young Palestinian boy walks among the debris of a house, which witnesses said was hit in an Israeli air strike, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 2, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Why does international support for the ICC stop at Palestine?

By opposing an investigation in the occupied territories, powerful states are contradicting their own positions on the ICC simply to protect a political ally.

By Matt Cannock and Solomon Sacco April 16, 2021

Hizb Al-Tahreer supporters clash with Palestinian troops during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Hebron, Feb. 4, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

The missing link to expose Israeli apartheid at The Hague? Torture

The ICC has overlooked how the Palestinian Authority, like its occupier, is using torture to maintain Israel's regime of racial domination.

By Itamar Mann February 18, 2021

Palestinians walk in front of buildings destroyed by Israeli military forces in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, Aug. 4, 2014. (Emad Nasser/Flash90)

The best way to avoid an ICC probe: Don’t commit war crimes

With every settlement and military operation, Israel has been paving its own road to The Hague.

By Avner Gvaryahu February 15, 2021

Israeli soldiers seen near the Gaza-Israel fence as Palestinians protest during the Great March of Return, April 13, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Biden should let the ICC do its job

The White House is right in saying that Palestine is not a sovereign state — under the peace process, Israel and the U.S. made sure it couldn't become one.

By Amjad Iraqi February 9, 2021

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the King David hotel in Jerusalem on February 25, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel doesn’t need ‘advice’ against annexation — it needs consequences

Half a century of occupation is ample time for powerful states like Germany to learn that rhetoric without action simply reinforces Israeli impunity.

By Hagai El-Ad April 30, 2020