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More than 50 experts from the United Nations have called for a “decisive international action” to impose sanctions and arms embargo on Israel over its killing of dozens of Palestinians in a carnage at a makeshift tent camp in Rafah. 

The humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip is turning into a man-made famine, the United Nations human rights chief has said, adding that Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon could amount to a “war crime.”

Top United Nations judges will start hearing the case filed by Nicaragua accusing Germany of supporting “genocide” against the people of Palestine in Gaza over its support for Israel.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refuses to grant South Africa's request for the tribunal to impose "urgent measures" aimed at safeguarding the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, which faces the imminent threat of an Israeli ground invasion.

South Africa’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations has warned that a looming Israeli attack on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip ignores preventive measures issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop breach of Palestinians' rights.

The UN special rapporteur on the occupied territories, Francesca Albanese, accused Zionist regime of breaching the orders issued recently by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) requiring it to take immediate steps to protect Palestinians’ rights and cease all activities that could constitute genocide in Gaza.

Hamas says it will commit to a potential International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling mandating a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal Israeli war if the Israeli regime adheres to such a verdict too.

A diverse group of protesters, including children and their families, have gathered outside The Hague headquarters of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to express their unwavering support for the Palestinian cause, calling for an immediate investigation into Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The United Nations Security Council has finally passed a resolution on the ongoing Zionist regime’s onslaught against Gaza, demanding increased aid deliveries to the besieged region but stopping short of calling for an immediate halt to the genocide. 

Iran's permanent ambassador to the United Nations says the United States is responsible for all crimes that the Zionist regime is committing against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Security Council is “paralyzed by geostrategic divisions,” which hinders the formulation of effective solutions to end the war in the Gaza Strip.

Iran has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold the Zionist regime accountable for its underway genocidal atrocities across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres took the rare step of invoking Article 99 of the UN Charter – urging the Security Council to work to “avert a humanitarian catastrophe” with “potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians” in the besieged and warn-torn Gaza Strip.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to set up a tribunal to prosecute Israeli authorities for war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations Security Council has called for "extended humanitarian pauses" in the Gaza Strip, breaking its silence after 40 days of an unrelenting genocidal war by the Zionist regime.

A prominent and veteran French lawyer, Gilles Devers, gathered in just 10 days an army of lawyers from different countries to prosecute the Zionist regime’s occupation regime for its war crimes against the Palestinians.

The United Nations human rights chief has called for an investigation into Israel's use of "high-impact explosive weapons" in the Gaza Strip as the regime presses ahead with its brutal onslaught against the besieged area for more than a month.

Spain's social rights minister, Ione Belarra, has backed a legal initiative to bring the Zionist regime before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for "war crimes" in Palestine.

The United Nations secretary general says the besieged Gaza Strip, which has been under a genocidal war by the Israeli regime for over a month now, is turning into "a graveyard for children."

A group of United Nations experts have warned time is running out to “prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza, expressing their deep frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt plans to decimate the besieged Gaza Strip.

Libya’s parliament on Wednesday called for halting oil exports to all countries backing the ongoing Zionist regime’s aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Qatar has called for the Zionist regime's nuclear facilities to be subjected to the International Atomic Energy Agency's safeguards amid Zionist regime's ongoing snub of international nuclear regulations.

Dozens of Jordanian lawmakers have called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in response to the forced stripping of five Palestinian women by Zionist troops during a raid on their home in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the reported crimes of abuse and forced undressing of clothes against five Palestinian women by Zionist female troops in al-Khalil.

Zionist regime has broken a 30-year record for the number of Palestinians kept behind bars under its administrative detention policy, which allows the regime to indefinitely imprison Palestinians without formal charges.

The #FreeAmin campaign called for the immediate release of the Palestinian activist in the Netherlands and head of the European Campaign to Lift the Siege on Gaza, Amin Abu Rashed, who has been detained by the Dutch authorities for nearly two months with direct incitement from the Zionist lobby in the country.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to unveil an online electronic platform to allow the Palestinians to sue the Zionists who commit war crimes.

A group of United Nations experts has ruled that Zionist regime’s recent murderous and hugely destructive land and aerial military campaign against the northern West Bank city of Jenin might constitute a "war crime."

Three Palestinian administrative captives entered on Thursday day 12 of the hunger strike they staged in protest at their illegal detention with no indictment or trial.

The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas has filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Israel's now-16-year-old brutal blockade of the Palestinian territory.

Israeli lawmakers have resumed debating a bill that would limit the powers of the regime’s Supreme Court, as part of rebooting a widely-bashed “judicial overhaul” plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition cabinet.

Member of Hamas’s political bureau and head of the Movement’s office of martyrs, wounded and prisoners, Zahir Jabarin, has said that the continued Israeli policy of administrative detention against Palestinian prisoners amounts to an organized crime that violates all international laws and conventions.

The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) moved the Hamas leader Raafat Nassif from the Negev prison solitary confinement to the Megiddo prison solitary confinement.

PA executive order says anyone found guilty of denying ‘crime against humanity’ carried out by Zionist gangs in 1948 faces up to 2 years in jail.

New York’s state assembly is to consider legislation to stop registered charities from sending tens of millions of dollars a year to fund illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Two United Nations experts have called for Zionist regime to be held accountable for the murder of a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad movement, Khader Adnan, who embraced martyrdom at a Zionist regime’s jail following an 87-day hunger strike.

The past month has seen an increase in attacks by Jewish settlers and Israeli occupation forces (IOF) against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank.

The Zionist regime has approved the establishment of a “national guard” proposed by far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, voting for major budget cuts across ministries to fund the controversial plan.

The Israeli Law Professors' Forum for Democracy has found that changes introduced by the current government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "validate the claim that Israel practices apartheid."

Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s push for judicial reforms is facing more headwinds, with the regime’s attorney-general now accusing him of breaking the law by getting directly involved in the judicial overhaul plan.

Zionist regime’s courts have issued 580 administrative detention orders against Palestinian prisoners since the beginning of 2023, according to Palestine Center for Prisoners' Studies.

Palestine’s UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure “protection” for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank.

The Zionist regime's parliament has passed a law that allows the Zionist regime to revoke the residency status or citizenship of those who have been engaged in activism against the occupation of Palestinian lands, and deport them either to the occupied West Bank or the besieged Gaza Strip.

A panel of United Nations experts has called on the international community to take action to stop systematic housing demolition, arbitrary displacement and forced evictions of Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank.

The Zionist regime has authorised nine Jewish settlements in the West Bank which were previously unauthorised outposts.

UN Security Council members have underscored the need to maintain a decades-old status quo at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds after the recent Israeli desecration of the holy site.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its legal opinion on the Israeli regime's occupation of Palestinian territories.

Oman’s parliament has voted on a draft amendment to expand a law banning relations and contacts with Israel, as the Zionist regime faces growing challenges to its hopes of integrating into the region two years after the US brokered normalization deals between the regime and four Arab countries.

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs has warned of official Israeli intents to promote and endorse racist legislation that allow the execution of “Palestinian prisoners” convicted by Israeli courts of committing murder.

A total of 835 Palestinians are placed under administrative detention, according to the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

The United States opposes Al Jazeera's efforts to have the Zionist regime prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Tel Aviv's murder of the Qatari news network's veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

Sada Social Center, a Ramallah-based social media rights group, said in a fresh report it has documented more than 72 digital violations against the Palestinian content on the social media platforms in November, including the removal of 40 accounts and pages.

The United Nations General Assembly has voted in a favor of a pro-Palestinian resolution to commemorate the Nakba (Catastrophe) Day, which marks the Israeli regime’s claiming existence in 1948. 

Zionist regime has turned to its global allies in desperation, urging them to help stop a Palestinian bid at the United Nations for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Zionist regime’s occupation of Palestinian territories.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called on the United Nations to include Israel in its annual List of Shame for its violations against the Palestinian children.

A three-member rights panel at the United Nations has opened a series of public hearings on Zionist regime's human rights violations committed across the occupied Palestinian territories.

An International human rights group has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to look into potential war crimes following the “unlawful attacks” committed during Israel’s deadly assault on the Gaza Strip in August.

Sada Social Center documented more than 125 violations against Palestinian content on various social media platforms in October 2022.

Israel’s occupation is illegal and indistinguishable from settler-colonialism, which must end as a pre-condition for the Palestinians to exercise their right to self-determination, the UN’s independent expert on the occupied Palestinian territory said Thursday.

More than 125 Palestinian women have been abducted since the beginning of the current year, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).