War Crimes

Israel accused Hamas on Monday of using hospitals as “human shields” again as terrorists fired on Israeli soldiers from within Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “State of the Race,” Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) acknowledged that Hamas does use Palestinian civilians as human shields, but said that he wouldn’t get into whether or not Israel has committed war crimes during

The historic and peaceful March for Israel in Washington, DC, on Tuesday was in fact a “hate rally,” according to the left-wing magazine The Nation, that deemed the event a “celebration” of war crimes.

South African Foreign Minister Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor issued a statement on Tuesday calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers, and other “key decision-makers” for war crimes.

The Iranian regime on Sunday made efforts to drag the China-led BRICS economic coalition and Pope Francis into the Israel-Hamas war, on the side of the Hamas terrorists.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Monday that it had found more terrorist rocket launchers in extremely sensitive civilian settings — including a Boy Scout youth center, and a mosque.

A remarkable video of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) attack dogs racing through the extensive network of tunnels built by Hamas with pilfered foreign aid money and taking the terrorists down in close combat was released Saturday by Ofir Gendelman, spokesman to the Arab world for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A member of the leftist coalition government in Spain has called for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu be brought up on war crimes charges.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced on Monday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing on Tuesday.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin stated that “both sides are committing war crimes,” and that countries who don’t criticize Israel, “can’t turn around and expect people to follow international law. You can’t turn

Newly-released documents reportedly found on the bodies of dead Hamas terrorists involved in Saturday’s attack on Israel show that the group intentionally targeted schools, and planned to kill civilians, along with taking hostages.

Make ‘em pay for endorsing, encouraging, and being a-okay with the butchering of babies and old people whose only “sin” was being Jewish.

The Palestinian terror group Hamas has threatened to execute Israeli hostages, one-by-one, “with video and audio,” for every time that Israel launches an airstrike against a Palestinian target in Gaza without warning.

The United Nations said on Tuesday that the situation in Sudan is “spiraling out of control” as food and medicine run out.

The awkward drama over if South Africa would fulfill its treaty obligations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by arresting Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the upcoming BRICS summit in Johannesburg was apparently resolved on Tuesday.

Chinese state media on Tuesday pounced on U.S. shipments of cluster munitions to Ukraine as proof the American-led “rules-based international order” is just a “mafia-style” hypocritical racket. 

Australia’s venerable and widely-read Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) on Friday apologized for articles published in 1838 that defended colonists accused of murdering dozens of Australia’s indigenous inhabitants.

Censorship regimes operated by social media companies are reportedly destroying evidence of war crimes, the BBC.

The government of South Africa published a notice on Monday that it would grant diplomatic immunity to all attendees of the BRICS summit in August.

Ethiopia issued an incensed and lengthy statement on Tuesday condemning the U.S. State Department and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in particular for determining that it had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during its recent civil war.

A an ex-advisor to Tony Blair said the war in Iraq as a “just war” amid calls for both Blair and President Bush to face war crimes tribunals. 

Russian leader Vladimir Putin reportedly made his first visit to occupied Ukrainian territory over the weekend, stopping in Crimea on Saturday and the captive port city of Mariupol on Sunday.

Russia has accused the United States of “sluggish schizophrenia” as President Joe Biden expressed support for the International Criminal Court issuing a warrant for President Vladimir Putin’s arrest despite the fact the U.S. does not recognise the court. 

The ICC has issued a warrant for Putin over allegations of war crimes in Ukraine, but the warrant is unenforceable — for now.

The United States government has now officially accused Russia of war crimes. The ICC should investigate — on both sides — even if enforcement is difficult.

The head of NATO has rejected Ukrainian requests for it to be supplied with phosphorous weapons and outlawed cluster bombs.

The European Commission has deleted references to the Ukrainians having lost 100,000 military personnel in a speech by President Ursula von der Leyen. 

Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko told the U.K. Daily Mail in an article published Wednesday that Ukrainian “intelligence services” were killing Ukrainians suspected of collaborating with the Russian military “like pigs” in areas where Kyiv has pushed back the ongoing invasion.

Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen, who also serves as foreign minister, devoted very little of his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday to discussing the brutal two-year civil war that heated up again over the past few weeks. He spent no time at all responding to the allegations of war crimes and human rights atrocities against both his government and its adversaries.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian troops in southern Ukraine have been carrying out torture and kidnappings, and he called on the world Sunday to respond.

A Danish soldier who volunteered to fight alongside the Ukrainian armed forces has made unverified claims that Ukrainian soldiers have been executing Russian prisoners of war.

BORODIANKA, Ukraine (AP) – Firefighters continued searching Saturday for survivors or the dead in the debris of destroyed buildings in a northern Ukrainian town that was occupied for weeks by Russian forces.

Dozens of people have reportedly died after a missile strike hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk. (Warning: Contains graphic image.)

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a joint report on Wednesday in which they alleged Ethiopia’s federal government has perpetrated “ethnic cleansing … crimes against humanity and war crimes” in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region as part of a civil war between Addis Ababa and the separatist militia known as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).

There is mounting evidence that Russia is committing war crimes, as President Joe Biden has alleged, but not that it is engaging in genocide, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed.

The Biden administration says Putin must be prosecuted for war crimes but has no answer for how that would happen, or the consequences.