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A blast at the Anglican Church-run Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City’s southern Al Zaytoun neighborhood Tuesday evening local time killed hundreds of people, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Gaza’s health ministry initially placed the death toll at 500 and blamed an Israel Defense Force (IDF) airstrike. However, on Wednesday, the IDF released surveillance [...]

Over 100 Israeli civilians were killed Saturday after Hamas fired rockets into Israel and scores of Hamas militants entered Israeli territory from Gaza, according to Israeli officials. The Palestinian Ministry of Health also reported that 198 Palestinians were killed after Israel conducted airstrikes on Gaza in response to the incursions. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) [...]

Azerbaijan launched a military operation in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday, prompting humanitarian concerns from international observers, including the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as a part of Azerbaijan, but it is also home to the Armenian-aligned breakaway state of Artsakh. Azerbaijan accused Armenian forces of planting [...]

Lana Osei is a JURIST staff correspondent in Ghana and a recent graduate of the GIMPA (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration) Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra.  Last Friday, September 15th, Ghana’s Armed Forces assured the country in an interview with the leadership of the Ghana Journalists Association that there [...]

The Israeli Supreme Court convened Tuesday morning to hear petitions against a judicial reform amendment which would annul the country’s reasonableness standard. The reforms, introduced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year, continue to fuel nationwide protests. All 15 Israeli Supreme Court justices gathered to preside over the hearing. Usually, cases are heard by a [...]

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported Friday that 42 bodies were retrieved from the Somaliland conflict front line. The ICRC also visited with over 300 detainees in the region on Thursday for humanitarian purposes and to inform families of their whereabouts. The delegation delivered blankets and mattresses to the detainees, and, in [...]

The government of Ethiopia announced on Tuesday a joint investigation with the government of Saudi Arabia into the alleged mass killings of Ethiopian migrants at the Saudi-Yemeni border. In a statement posted on the Ethiopian foreign ministry’s official X (Twitter) account, the government expressed its commitment to investigate the reported incidents in collaboration with Saudi [...]

Earlier this month, a former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno Ocampo, released a legal opinion claiming that genocide is under way against ethnic Armenians in the Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Such serious allegations should not be made lightly and require careful scrutiny. In light of this opinion, the Government of Azerbaijan [...]

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced Thursday that it will end its financial support of Afghan hospitals. In a statement to Reuters, the ICRC commented that their program in Afghanistan is expected to be phased out at the end of August. “The ICRC does not have the mandate nor the resources to [...]

The American Red Cross implemented guidance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday to relax restrictions on blood donations for gay and bisexual men. Specifically, the American Red Cross changed its donor assessment questionnaire to remove gender and sexual orientation-specific questions and focus more on an individual’s history. Before, gay and bisexual [...]