Overly broad evacuation orders sowing panic - NEWS - 06/03/2026
Israel's use of repeated, overly broad evacuation orders across Lebanon, including to more than 100 villages and towns in the country's south and east, as well as the entirety of Beirut's southern suburbs, displacing hundreds of thousands of people, is sowing panic and fuelling humanitarian suffering. Read more.
Deliver truth, justice, reparations for victims of war crimes - NEWS - OPEN LETTER - 25/02/2026
Amnesty International was among a number of Lebanese and international human rights organisations to sign an open letter to Lebanon's justice minister and deputy prime minister, who heads Lebanon's National Committee for International Humanitarian Law, urging the government to take immediate, concrete steps to help secure access to truth, justice and reparations for thousands of civilian victims of abuses stemming from the armed conflict with Israel. Read more.
The open letter can be found here..
In a high-level visit to Lebanon between 23-25 November 2025, Amnesty's secretary general, Agnès Callamard, called on Lebanese authorities to take concrete steps towards accountability for violations of international humanitarian law during the armed conflict with Israel, justice for victims of the Beirut Port explosion, and supporting efforts to strengthen the protection of free expression and civic space. Read more.
Amnesty had been one of 14 Lebanese and international rights organisations calling on Lebanon's parliament to ensure that a draft media law it is considering upholds the right to freedom of expression. Read more.
Israeli striked killed civilians without warning - PUBLIC STATEMENT - 24/02/2026
In a new investigation, Amnesty International highlights two Israeli airstrikes on residential neighbourhoods that took place more than a year ago, killing 34 civilians and injuring at least 23. Amnesty's research into these attacks did not identify miliatary objectives in the vicinity of these sites at the time they were struck. Amnesty has reasonable basis to conclude that the Israeli military violated international humanitarian law in both strikes. The organisation is calling for these strikes to be investigated as war crimes. Read more.
One year since the Israeli military significantly escalated its attacks in Lebanon, victims of violations of international law are still awaiting justice and reparations, the Lebanese government has yet to grant the International Criminal Court the jurisdiction to carry out investigations on its territory, and many residents of towns and villages in southern Lebanon are still unable to return to what remains of their homes. Read more.
Deadly building collapse must spur prevention and reparations - NEWS - 10/02/2026
The tragic collapse of a residential building in Tripoli's Bab al Tabbaneh on 08 February 2026 which killed 14 people and wounded eight others must spur government action to provide reparation for those who have suffered the loss of their home and to protect those who remain in unsafe buildings. The building is the latest in at least four building collapses in the first five weeks of 2026 alone. Read more.
Amnesty documents
2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Updated: 06/03/2026
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Country coordinator -