Iranian missile strike must be investigated as a war crime - NEWS - 31/03/2026
A missile strike by the Islamic Republic of Iran's authorities on the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh that killed nine civilians - including four teenagers - must be investigated as a war crime. Read more.
Newly adopted death penalty law must be repealed - NEWS - 30/03/2026
The Israeli authorities must urgently repeal legislative amendments expanding Israel's use of the death penalty which were adopted on 30 March 2026 with a majority of 62 Knesset members. Read more.
Amnesty International was among a number of organisations to sign a joint statement calling on the European Union to take urgent measures regarding the adoption of the death penalty law. Read more.
The Knesset had been discussing proposed legislative measures to expand the scope of the death penalty and revive its implementation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The proposals would enable the commission of multiple violations of international human rights law, customary law and international humanitarian law; and would further entrench Israel's apartheid system by introducing additional provisions that are designed to be selectively used against Palestinians. Amnesty International had urged the authorities to immediately abandon all plans to adopt the proposed measures and to fully abolish the death penalty instead. Read more.
Earlier, the Knesset had passed the first reading of a controversial new amendment to the Israeli penal law making it mandatory for Israeli courts to impose the death penalty against individuals convicted of killing an Israeli 'either intentionally or recklessly' if the act is motivated by 'racism or hostility to the public' and ' committed with the objective of harming the state of Israel or the rebirth of the Jewish people. Read more.
FIFA's refusal to act over Israeli clubs based in illegal settlements - NEWS - 20/03/2026
FIFA has announced that no action will be taken against the Israeli Football Association over the participation of clubs based in illegal settlements in Israel's leagues. Read more.
Previoualy, Amnesty International had 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 were excluded from its leagues. Read more.
Killing latest illustration of alarming rise in the lethal force - NEWS - 16/03/2026
On 15 March 2026, a Palestinian couple, Waed Bani Owda, her husband, Ali Bani Owda, and two of their young children, Othman, 7, and Mohammed, 5, were killed in Tammoun in the occupied West Bank after a special Israeli military unit - posing as Palestinians and driving a car with a Palestinian number plate - riddled their car with bullets. Read more.
Release Ayman Bani Owda immediately - URGENT ACTION - 13/03/2026
Ayman Bani Owda, also known as Ayman Ghrayeb, a Palestinian human rights defender and social worker from Tammoun, Tubas governorate, in the occupied West Bank, is held without charge or trial in an Israeli jail outside the occupied territory for his human rights work. A father of four, Bani Owda has been arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces since 17 November 2025. An Israeli military court confirmed a six-month administrative detention order against him on 14 December 2025. Israeli authorities must immediately and unconditionally release him. Take action.
Charges dropped against soliders accused of abuse of Palestinian detainee - NEWS - 13/03/2026
Israel's military advocate general has decided to drop charges against five Israeli soldiers accused of abusing and sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee at Israel's notorious Sde Teiman military prison. Read more.
Hind Rajab's mother talks of the death of her daughter - CAMPAIGNS - 11/03/2026
On 29 January 2024, five-year-old Hind Rajab was brutally killed, along with her four cousins, uncle and aunt, by the Israeli military as they attempted to flee a neighbourhood in Gaza City. The two Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics who went to Hind's rescue were also killed by the Israeli military. Wesam Hamada, Hind's mother spoke to Amnesty International. Read more.
Compounded harms inflicted on women and girls in Gaza - NEWS - 06/03/2026
Over the past 29 months, the devastating, multi-layered impact of Israel's ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink. Read more.
Global impunity fuelling unlawful annexation - NEWS - 26/02/2026 - CAMPAIGNS - 02/12/2025
Since December 2025, Israeli authorities have unleashed a series of unlawful measures deliberately designed to dispossess Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and to make the annexation of the territory an irreversible reality. Read more.
Following the government taking office in December 2022, the authorities have intensified their policies aimed at displacing Palestinians in parts of the occupied West Bank known as Area C which is under Israeli control. These efforts have surged following the Hamas-led attacks of 07 October 2023 and Israel's genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Read more.
EU must demand Board of Peace puts Palestinians' rights first - NEWS - 23/02/2026
European Union foreign ministers must use their meeting with Nikolai Mladenov, director-general of the Board of Peace and high representative for Gaza, to demand that the board focuses on Palestinians' rights. Read more.
Older people in Gaza suffering overlooked health crisis - NEWS - 05/02/2026
Older people in Gaza are suffering an overlooked physical and mental health crisis amid Israel's ongoing blockade of aid and essential medicines and the recent ban on humanitarian organisations, new research by HelpAge International and Amnesty International has revealed. Read more.
Conscientious objector released - GOOD NEWS! - URGENT ACTION UPDATE - 19/01/2026
On 06 January 2026, Yuval Peleg, 18 years old, was exempted from military service and released from military prison having served five separate stints in Israeli 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 Territories. Read more.
States must not assist the Holger G's transportation of explosives - NEWS - 18/12/2025
States must prevent the Portuguese-flagged Holger G vessel - which is carrying munition components bound for Israel - from docking at their ports, given the clear risk that its cargo would contribute to the ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip, as well as to war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians. Read more.
The German government has decided to lift the suspension on the issuance of certain arms exports licences to Israel for use in the occupied Gaza Strip effective from the 24 November 2025. Read more.
Previously, Amnesty International has reported that, 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.
'Utterly preventable' Gaza flood tragedy must mobilise global action - NEWS - 17/12/2025
The devastation caused by torrential rain in the occupied Gaza Strip that led to the recent flooding of tents and makeshift shelters and caused buildings to collapse was fuelled by Israel's ongoing restrictions on the entry of critical supplies to repair vital infrastructure. Read more.
Murder and hostage taking by Palestinian armed groups - REPORT - 11/12/2025
Amnesty International's latest report documents abuses by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups during the attacks on 07 October 2023 on southern Israel and the treatment of those seized and held captive in the occupied Gaza Strip. It concludes that the vast majority of civilians who died were killed by Palestinian fighters and that all held in Gaza were unlawfully detained as hostages. Read more.
Amnesty had earlier called on Palestinian armed groups to immediately and unconditionally release all civilians held hostage in the occupied Gaza Strip. Read more.
Sustainable peace requires international justice for all victims of all crimes - NEWS - 11/12/2025
States must demonstrate their commitment to international justice to ensure genuine accountability for victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for all those in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and in Israel. Read more.
Halt the eviction of Saleh Diab and his family - URGENT ACTION UPDATE - 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. In November 2025, the Israeli Supreme Court granted the family a leave to appeal the decision, as well as an injunction freezing the eviction, marking their final legal lifeline against displacement. Take action.
Israel's genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip continues - PUBLIC STATEMENT - 27/11/2025
More than one month after a ceasefire was announced in the Gaza Strip on 09 October 2025, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. Israel severely restricts the entry of supplies and the restoration of services essential for the survival of the civilian population - including nutritious food, medical supplies and electricity - as well as stringently limiting medical evacuations. Read more.
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.
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What happened to human rights for Palestinians? - NEWS - 31/10/2025
The United States is actively trying to dismantle the foundations for the system of international justice that exists to address the planet's worst crimes. 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.
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