#civilian-targeting

#civilian-targeting

The report claims that torture in detention has been used on an unprecedented scale as punitive collective vengeance, inflicting profound and lasting scars on the bodies and minds of tens of thousands of Palestinians.

The intense focus on Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's war on Iran has meant scant attention paid to the Israeli war in Lebanon, where almost 1,100 people have now been killed.

Five pro-Palestinian activists have pleaded not guilty to breaking into a British military air base and damaging two planes in protest against the UK's support for Israel's war in Gaza. The five are accused of breaking into the Brize Norton Royal Air Force base in central England in June and spraying red paint over two Voyager aircraft used for refuelling and transport.

United States President Donald Trump launched the Board of Peace on Thursday, saying it's one of the most consequential bodies ever created in the history of the world. This is all part of the agreement to reach a ceasefire in Gaza after more than two years of Israel's genocidal war on Palestinians in the territory. Trump said the board will work in partnership with the United Nations to address crises far beyond Gaza.

"Are you okay?" These were Alex Pretti's last words, said to a woman after ICE agents had tackled and pepper-sprayed her. Videos from bystanders show Pretti holding up a phone, attempting to document what was happening before he himself was pepper-sprayed, wrestled to the ground, and killed by those officers. He lost his life not for committing violence, but for documenting it, and stepping in to protect someone facing it.

In 2025, the administration of US President Donald Trump ordered the US Agency for International Development to be closed; this year, it withdrew the country from 66 international organizations. Other Western nations that are plagued with high levels of debt and pressure to prioritize domestic challenges have slashed their foreign aid, too. According to projections, official development assistance dropped by 9-17% in 2025, amounting to some US$55 billion.

Life is cautiously returning to the streets of Dilling, the second largest city in South Kordofan state, after the Sudanese army broke a suffocating siege that had isolated the area for more than two years. For months, the city had been encircled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), cutting off vital supply lines and trapping civilians in a severe humanitarian crisis.

The Gambia's landmark case, accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority, began in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) this week. The Gambia's attorney general and justice minister, Dawda A Jallow, told ICJ judges on Monday that the Rohingya were targeted for destruction by Myanmar's government, as the case's final hearing opened nearly a decade after the country's military launched an offensive that forced some 750,000 Rohingya from their homes, mostly into neighbouring Bangladesh.