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World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday that the WHO is “extremely disturbed” by reports of airstrikes near Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the region. Hours earlier, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said the hospital was hit by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) airstrikes, killing at least one person and trapping [...]

Israel has agreed to daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in northern Gaza, according to a Thursday press briefing from a US national security spokesperson. John Kirby, the President’s National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications, said that “the Israelis have announced some potentially important steps” and “there will now be two [...]

Editors’ note: Amid surging violence between Hamas and Israeli forces, JURIST is seeking perspectives from around the world. Neither this nor other commentaries in this series constitute JURIST editorial policy, nor do they necessarily reflect the opinions of the editorial team.  JURIST Managing Features Editor Jaimee Francis talked with Israeli law student Segev Magal to [...]

Editors’ note: Amid surging violence between Hamas and Israeli forces, JURIST is seeking perspectives from around the world. Neither this nor other interviews and commentaries related to the ongoing conflict constitute JURIST editorial policy, nor do they necessarily reflect the opinions of the editorial team. Jeffrey Sachs is renowned for his innovative approaches to combating [...]

The families of nine civilian victims of Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC), their lawyer François Zimeray told the media last week. The complaint asks the ICC to prosecute Hamas leaders for genocide and war crimes and to issue an international arrest warrant for Hamas leadership. [...]

In a statement released Friday, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) warned of the “multi-layered human rights violations of Palestinians” occurring in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The statement further notes that 132 Palestinians, 41 of which were children, have been killed in the West Bank since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel [...]

Editors’ note: Amid surging violence between Hamas and Israeli forces, JURIST is seeking perspectives from law students, law professors and lawyers around the world. Neither this nor other commentaries in this series constitute JURIST editorial policy, nor do they necessarily reflect the opinions of the editorial team. This commentary is a compilation of views offered [...]

The Israel-Palestine conflict, which has deep historical, political, and religious roots, has sparked protests worldwide. The conflict has a deep historical ties to the establishment of Israel in 1948 and the displacement of Palestinians. It revolves around competing claims over land, particularly in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. Both sides are driven [...]

Editors’ note: On Oct. 7, Hamas militants staged a surprise attack on Israel, as a result of which at least 1,400 Israelis were killed and hundreds were taken hostage. In the days since, Israeli forces have launched a counter-offensive in Gaza that has taken thousands of Palestinian lives, according to local reports. As tensions continue [...]

Israel ordered more than 20,000 residents of the northern city of Kiryat Shmona to evacuate on Friday, according to The Jerusalem Post. This comes after Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah engaged in intense exchanges of fire at the Israeli-Lebanese border near Kiryat Shmona on Wednesday. Similar to Hamas, Hezbollah is a Lebanese Islamist political [...]