Archive for September 1st, 2025

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01/09/2025

Lebanon: Israeli Military’s Deliberate Destruction of Civilian Property and Land ‘Must Be Investigated as War Crimes’

Human Wrongs Watch

By Amnesty International*

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  • Homes and buildings destroyed by explosives and bulldozers
  • More than 10,000 structures heavily damaged or destroyed, even after ceasefire declared
  • “Israeli troops deliberately left a trail of devastation as they moved through the region” – Erika Guevara Rosas

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01/09/2025

‘At the Rate Journalists Are Being Killed in Gaza by the Israeli Army, There Will Soon Be No One Left to Keep You Informed’

Human Wrongs Watch

By Reporters Without Borders (RSF)*

31 August 2025 — Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the emergency evacuation of reporters seeking to leave the Strip, an end to impunity for Israeli crimes against Gaza’s reporters and that foreign press be granted independent access to the territory.
“At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed”

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01/09/2025

UN General Assembly Urged to Temporarily Move to Geneva to Circumvent US Visa Denials

Human Wrongs Watch

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 1 2025 (IPS)* –– When Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was denied a US visa to visit New York to address the United Nations back in 1988– under the Ronald Reagan administration– the General Assembly defied the United States by temporarily moving the UN’s highest policy making body to Geneva– for the first time in UN history– providing a less-hostile political environment for the PLO leader.
 

The Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, arrived at UN Headquarters by helicopter. A view of the helicopter as it approached the North Lawn of the UN campus on 13 November 1974. But Arafat was denied a US visa for a second visit to the UN in 1988. Credit: UN Photo/Michos Tzovaras

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