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How HRW’s Digital Investigations Team is Working to Build Evidence
A man records a video with his mobile phone of rockets being fired from Gaza City towards Israel on October 7, 2023. © 2023 MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images
Disclaimer: This dispatch includes distressing descriptions of violence, as well as stills of and links to graphic imagery and footage.
As news broke early Saturday morning that members of Palestinian armed groups from Gaza had breached the border fence, massacring hundreds of civilians, including children, in southern Israel, videos began emerging on social media.
(UN News)* — The humanitarian situation in Gaza is “indescribable” and “unprecedented” as the battle between extremist Palestinian armed groups and Israeli forces escalates.
A building is engulfed in flames in central Gaza. Credit: UN News/Ziad Taleb
While the phrase might seem logical, “Israel’s 9/11” is already being used as a huge propaganda weapon by Israel’s government — now engaged in massive war crimes against civilians in Gaza, after mass murder of Israelis by Hamas last weekend.
Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups must make every effort to protect the lives of civilians in today’s [] outbreak of fighting in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said Amnesty International amid a mounting civilian death toll.
Respect International Law, End Impunity to Deter Further Abuses
(Jerusalem) 9 October 2023 – Palestinian armed groups carried out a deadly assault on October 7, 2023, that killed several hundred Israeli civilians and led to Israeli counterstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians, Human Rights Watch said in releasing a questions and answers document about the international humanitarian law standards governing the current hostilities.
(UN News)* — The escalating conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, the UN reported on Monday [].
Over 120,000 people have been internally displaced in Gaza due to concerns over their protection and the destruction of homes, said UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, speaking in New York.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, is sheltering roughly 137,000 people in 83 of its schools across the Gaza Strip.
Six health care workers have been killed and four others injured, with seven health care facilities and nine ambulances damaged.
Bills Would Imprison Young Texans, Give Law Enforcement Outsized Power
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, right, holds a news conference as members of the Texas National Guard prepare to deploy to the Texas-Mexico border in Austin, Texas, May 8, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Eric Gay
(Austin, TX) – Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has called a special session of the Texas legislature for October 10, 2023 to consider proposals that would increase human rights violations and lead to long sentences for thousands of young Texans, Human Rights Watch said today [6 October 2023].
The government pushed a law through the Sejm, Poland’s lower house of parliament, in August to make this referendum possible.
UN-verified cases up by more than 40 per cent in the first half of 2023.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 28 September 2023 (UNICEF)* – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on track to have record levels of verified grave violations against children for a third consecutive year in 2023.
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