Ceasefire must be pathway to end occupation, apartheid, genocide- NEWS - 09/10/2025
Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire deal, which reportedly includes the immediate opening of five crossings to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, the rapid release of all living Israeli and other nationals held hostage in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and the partial withdrawal of the Israeli military from the occupied Gaza Strip. Read more.
The Trump administration's proposal to end the conflict in Gaza should be grounded in respect for human rights and an end to Israel's unlawful occupation, apartheid and genocide in Gaza. Read more.
Catastrophic wave of mass displacement as Gaza City obliterated - NEWS - 03/10/2025
The intensification of Israel's brutal military offensive in Gaza City since mid-August 2025 has unleashed a new catastrophic phase of mass forced displacement, forcing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians - many of whom have already been uprooted multiple times - into overcrowded enclaves in the south of the occupied Gaza Strip that lack access to clean water, food, medical care, shelter and life-sustaining infrastructure. Read more.
Israel must immediately rescind the mass displacement order issued by the military to the residents of Gaza City on 09 September 2025 as it escalates its assault on Gaza City compounding the suffering of civilians amidst an ongoing genocide. Read more.
Israel's assault on Gaza City risks displacing hundreds of thousands of its residents which will compound an unbearable level of civilian suffering amidst Israel's deliberate starvation campaign. Read more.
On 22 August 2025, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification's of famine in Gaza City was declared. Read more.
Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life. Read more.
Israel's Security Cabinet has decided to approve Benjamin Natanyahu's plans to 'take control' of Gaza City, where nearly one million Palestinians are currently trying to survive under inhumane conditions. Read more.
As the Israeli government's siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organisations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes. Read more.
Amnesty International has been working with trusted, exceptionally professional and dedicated fieldworkers in Gaza. In this moving account, a fieldworker bravely shares how his hopes of a ceasefire have been torn apart. Read more.
Evidence gathered by Amnesty demonstrates how over a month since the introduction of its militarised aid distribution system, Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide. Read more.
Non-government organisations are calling for immediate action to end the deadly Israeli distribution scheme (including the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) in Gaza, revert to the existing United Nations'-led coordination mechanisms and lift the Israeli government's blockade on aid and commercial supplies. The 400 aid distribution points operating during the temporatey ceasefire across Gaza have now been replaced by just four military-controlled distribution sites, forcing two million people into overcrowded, militarised zones where they face daily gunfire and mass casulties while trying to access food and are denied other life-saving supplies. Read more.
The Israeli government must immediately abandon its recently unveiled plans for expanded military operations including plans to annex territory and forcibly displace Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, which would gravely violate international law. Read more.
Israel must end its devastating siege on the occupied Gaza Strip which constitutes a genocidal act, a blatant form of unlawful collective punishment, and the war crime of using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, following two months since Israel reimposed a ban on the entry of aid and commercial goods into the Gaza Strip on 02 March 2025. Read more.
Take action to end Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza here.
Unlawful interception of Global Sumud Flotilla - NEWS - 02/10/2025
Israeli forces have intercepted at least 39 vessels and detained dozens of crew members of the Global Sumd Flotilla, which was attempting to break Israel's illegal blockade and deliver essential humanitarian aid to the occupied Gaza Strip, amid Israel's ongoing genocide. Read more.
Israel's interception and detention of the 12-person crew aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla's Madleen boat, including activist Greta Thunberg, who has been designated by Amnesty International as an Ambassador of Conscience, which was attempting to break Israel's illegal blockade on the occupied Gaza Strip and get in desperately needed humanitarian supplies, flouts international law. Read more.
More information on the Madleen and why they were trying to reach Gaza can be found here.
A petition calling for the blockade on Gaza to be lifted and the genocide ended can be found here.
Call on FIFA and UEFA to suspend Israeli Football Association - NEWS - 01/10/2025
Amnesty International has sent an open letter to FIFA and UEFA calling for the suspension of the Israeli Football Association until clubs from settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are excluded from its leagues. Read more.
Immediate ceasefire and release of hostages urgently needed - NEWS - 30/09/2025
Palestinian armed groups must immediately and unconditionally release all civilians held hostage in the occupied Gaza Strip two years after they were seized during the Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on 07 October 2023. Read more.
Release conscientious objector - URGENT ACTION - 30/09/2025
Yuval Peleg, 18 years old, is currently serving a 30-day sentence at Neve Tzedek military prison for refusing to enlist in the Israeli military over its involvement in the genocide in Gaza and the unlawful occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Israeli authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Yuval Peleg and other conscientious objectors, who are prisoners of conscience. Take action.
Microsoft moves to block military unit's access to technology - NEWS - 26/09/2025
Microsoft has decided to restrict an Israeli military unit's access to its technology after an investigation found it was being used to store mass surveillance data on Palestinians. Read more.
US veto for Israel's campaign of annihilation in Gaza - NEWS - 19/09/2025
The United States has vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that would have demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the lifting of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid and ensuring its safe distribution, and immediate unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups. Read more.
On 16 September 2025, a report was submitted by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, to the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council concluding that Israeli authorities and forces have committed and are continuing to commit genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip. Read more.
The high-level United Nations conference to discuss the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine and the implementation of the two-state solution, taking place on 28-29 July 2025, must be centred around the immediate and effective application of international law, including states' obligations to prevent and punish genocide and apartheid, and end Israel's unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory. Read more.
Amnesty International's briefing and recommendations can be found here.
United States secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has announced sanctions against the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory in a disgraceful affront to international justice. Read more.
The US government decided to veto a draft United Nations' Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the occupied Gaza Strip, the release of hostages, and the 'immediate and unconditional lifting of all restrictions on the humanitarian aid'. Read more.
A petition demanding a ceasefire by all parties to end civilian suffering can be found here.
Pull the plug on the political economy enabling Israel's crimes - REPORT - 18/09/2025
Amnesty International is calling on states, international, municipal, and other public institutions and bodies, and companies and other private organisations to step up their pressure on Israel to abide by its international obligations and put an end to the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the unlawful military occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and its system of apartheid against all Palestinians whose rights it controls. States, public institutions and companies must live up to their legal obligations and responsibilities under international law and standards, as laid out in a range of international decisions and resolutions. The public at large must demand that they do so. Read more.
US sanctions a blatant attack on human rights - NEWS - 04/09/2025
The United States government has decided to impost sanctions against the following Palestinian non-governmental organisations: al Haq, Al Mezan Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. The sanctions are in context of sanctions imposed against International Criminal Court related activities and are a blatant attack on human rights. Read more.
On 10 June 2025, the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control decided to sanction Addameer, a prominent Palestinian human rights organisation, in a deplorable illustration of the ongoing crackdown against Palestinian and pro-Palestinian human rights defenders and voices in the United States and other parts of the world. This baseless and arbitrary decision should be immediately reversed. Read more.
Slovenia facilitating the transfer of arms to Israel - NEWS - 22/08/2025
According to media reports, A-E Electronics, a subsidiary of Israel's biggest arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, used a Slovenian port to transport military cargo to Israel despite Slovenia's decision to ban the export, import and transit of military equipment to and from Slovenia. Read more.
Killing of activist demands justice and accountability - NEWS - 30/07/2025
On 28 July 2025, Awda al-Hathaleen, a prominent Palestinian West Bank activist, was shot and killed. His death demands justice and accountability. Read more.
The Israeli military has displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians by destroying homes and essential civilian infrastructure in Jenin and Tulkarem refugee camps rendering them uninhabitable, as part of its ongoing brutal military operation in the occupied West Bank. Read more.
Amnesty International had earlier reported on how the Palestinian community of Shi'b Al-Butum in Masafer Yatta is at imminent risk of forcible transfer due to increasing state-backed settler attacks, as well as home demolitions, restrictions on access to land and illegal settlement expansion by the Israeli authorities. Read more.
Release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya - ACTION - 28/07/2025
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kaman Adwan Hospital in Mashrou' Beit Lahiya and a prominent voice of Gaza's decimated healthcare sector, is still being arbitrarily detained by Israeli authorities since his arrest on 27 December 2024. A lawyer who visited him and other detainees, recently reported that the has been subjected to abuse and other ill-treatment. Amnesty International is demanding his immediate and unconditional release. Take action.
Israeli organisations conclude Israel committing genocide in Gaza - NEWS - 28/07/2025
Two landmark reports issued by leading Israeli human rights organisations B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel, conclude that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. Read more.
Iranian use of cluster munitions violated international law - NEWS - 24/07/2025
The Iranian forces' use of cluster munitions during the '12 Day War' with Israel was a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. Read more.
The Israeli military's deliberate air strikes on Evin prison in Tehran on 23 June 2025 constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian law and must be criminally investigated as war crimes. Read more.
Refusal to suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement is a 'betrayal' - NEWS - 15/07/2025
The European Union's decision not to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement is a 'cruel and unlawful betrayal'. Read more.
The European Commission's review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement found 'indications' that Israel is breaching its human rights obligations. Read more.
The European Union had decided to initiate a review of Israel's compliance with its obligations under international law under the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Read more.
On 20 March 2025, the European Council issued its conclusions on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory attempting to justify Israel's genocide and war crimes against Palestinians. Read more.
On 24 February 2025, European Union (EU) foreign ministers hosted Gideon Sa'ar, Israel's foreign minister, in Brussels for the EU-Israel Association Council. It was the first time in the EU's history that its leaders welcomed the foreign representative of a state whose prime minister and former defence minister are subject to arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and whose military is actively engaged in committing crimes under international law, including genocide. Read more.
Halt the eviction of Saleh Diab and his family - URGENT ACTION - 25/06/2025
Saleh Diab and his family are at risk of unlawful transfer from occupied East Jerusalem after the Israeli District Court rejected their appeal against eviction from their home in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in February 2025. These forced evictions, led by settler group Nachalat Shimon, are part of a continuing pattern of dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah. The Israeli Supreme Cout is expected to issue a decision regarding the request for leave to appeal no sooner than the second half of July, marking their final legal lifeline against displacement. Take action.
Urgent need to protect civilians amid escalation in hostilities - NEWS - 18/06/2025
As more and more civilians bear the cruel toll of the terrifying military escalation in Iran and Israel since 13 June 2025, and amid threats of further escalation in the conflict, Amnesty International is urging the Israeli and Iranian authorities to abide by their obligations under international law to protect civilians. Read more.
Satellite imagery reveals total razing of Khuza'a in May 2025 - NEWS - 13/06/2025
Amnesty International's analysis of satellite imagery and verification of video footage reveals how Israeli forces completely razed what remained of the town of Khuza'a in the southern occupied Gaza Strip over the course of two weeks in May 2025. Read more.
Amnesty is calling for an independent and impartial investigation into the circumstances in which at least 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers, who went into southern Gaza for a rescue operation, were shot dead after Israeli forces opened fire on their vehicles. Read more.
A series of Israeli airstrikes across the occupied Gaza Strip killed at least 414 Palestinians, including 174 children, and hospitalised over 500 more, signalling a unilateral end to the truce with Hamas. Read more.
Israel's decision to cut off the electricity supply to a desalination plant for drinking water in the occupied Gaza Strip is cruel and unlawful. It follows the blocking of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Read more.
Divesting pension fund crucial towards dismantling unlawful occupation - NEWS - 23/05/2025
On 27 May 2025, the Norwegian parliament was to conclude its review into a proposal to divest The Government Pension Fund from companies unlawfully operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Read more.
Testimonies from the West Bank and Gaza - CAMPAIGNS - 15/05/2025
The head of the Batn al Hawa Neighbourhood Committee writes on Israel's forced displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank. Read more.
A mother writes on living during a genocide where it is a fight every minute and every second. Read more.
Intervention in R(Al-Haq) v SSBT - JUDICIAL REVIEW INTERVENTION - 13/05/2025
In a judical review brought by Al-Haq against the United Kingdom secretary of state for business and development, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have submitted that the United Kingdom has an obligation to prevent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and should therefore cease any direct or indirect supply of military equipment to Israel. Read more.
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