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Geneva conventions

May 2024

  • People hold flags and placards in front of the ICRC building in Gaza City: children and men of varied ages are seen, with some women in the background, holding Palestinian flags and hand-written signs. One boy is wearing a keffiyeh scarf around his neck. It is bright and sunny, and the people are standing on paving and sand in front of a gateway and stone wall.

    Red Cross and Foreign Office to discuss plan to visit Palestinians in Israeli detention

    ICRC is denied access to prisoners in what is said to be breach of Geneva conventions but critics say UK plan may weaken rule of law

March 2024

  • A tank drives along a dirt road past yellow flowers

    The age of extinction
    ‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?

    Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable

January 2024

  • Benjamin Netanyahu

    The Guardian view on Gazan genocide charges: Israel finds itself with a plausible case to answer

    Editorial: States that respect international law must ensure that the measures demanded by the world court are implemented

October 2023

  • Dar al-Shifa hospital is lit up in a darkened Gaza City.

    What is a human shield and how has Hamas been accused of using them?

    Israel claims group has placed command centre under hospital and is deliberately shielding behind Palestinian civilians
  • Mourners at Yehud Monosun cemetery near Tel Aviv attend the funeral of Israeli civilian Dr Daniel Levi Ludmir, killed by Hamas on 7 October.

    Benjamin Netanyahu’s failings have helped feed the Hamas monster

    Letters: Israel’s response to the atrocities carried out by Hamas now risks creating yet another generation of Palestinians filled with fury and hate, writes Seán Boyle. Plus letters from Marco Jerrentrup, Victoria Gwilliam and Rob Sadlier

    • Biden’s support for Israel is qualified: he means to hold Netanyahu to the law of war

      Yossi Mekelberg

    • The Guardian view on Gaza’s ground invasion: things could spiral out of control

    • What are the rules of war – and how do they apply to the Israel-Gaza conflict?

June 2022

  • Brahim and Iman Saadoun

    ‘He’s been betrayed’: sister of Moroccan man captured in Ukraine pleads for help

    Brahim Saadoun’s sister Iman says marine sentenced to death by Russian proxies has been abandoned by his own government
  • Brahim Saadoun

    Moroccan sentenced to death is a victim of Russian ‘games’, friends say

    Brahim Saadoun is a much-loved marine on active duty, they insist, and not a mercenary, as court in Donetsk claims
  • Two Britons and a Moroccan sentenced to death in Russian-backed separatist state<br>epa10006004 British citizens Aiden Aslin (L) and Shaun Pinner (R) and Moroccan Saaudun Brahim (C) attend a sentencing hearing at the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, 09 June 2022 (issued 10 June 2022). On 09 June 2022, DPR's Supreme Court sentenced two British nationals and a Moroccan national to death. The three men, who fought for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and then surrendered, were accused by local authorities of participating in hostilities on the side of Ukraine as mercenaries. On 24 February Russian troops had entered Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a 'special military operation', resulting in fighting and destruction in the country and a humanitarian crisis. EPA/STRINGER

    The ‘trial’ in Donetsk has set a chilling precedent for conflict in the 21st century

    Sadakat Kadri
    The legal frameworks for war that the world has tried to uphold since 1945 have never been at such risk, says barrister Sadakat Kadri

April 2022

  • A still image of Aiden Aslin taken from Russian state TV footage

    Family of captive Briton tell of distress at seeing him on Russian TV

  • Still images taken from Russian state TV show Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner British fighters captured in the city of Mariupol.

    Captured Britons put on Russian TV asking Boris Johnson to help free them

  • soldiers walk past damaged buildings

    Second British soldier captured in Mariupol is paraded on Russian TV

  • Volodymyr Zolkin and prisoner

    ‘Often a Russian mother has a TV for a brain’: Ukraine YouTuber films PoWs calling home

February 2022

  • Yangon General Hospital, Myanmar

    The Guardian view on healthcare in war: protect those who aid others

    Editorial: The shameful litany of attacks on medical facilities and workers continues to grow

October 2020

  • Home secretary Priti Patel

    The Guardian view on asylum policy: nasty, brutish and wrong

    Editorial: Ministers are playing to the nativist gallery with ideas for dumping migrants on distant islands or rusting ferry boats

July 2019

  • Male lion in Kruger National Park

    Putting ecocide on a par with genocide

  • Refugees from South Sudan cross a bridge over the Kaya river in Koboko district in 2017Refugees from South Sudan cross a bridge over the Kaya river in Koboko district in 2017

    Make environmental damage a war crime, say scientists

February 2019

  • Shamima Begum pictured going through security at Gatwick airport in 2015

    The Observer view on Shamima Begum

    Whatever the risk this young Isis supporter may pose, she is Britain’s responsibility and we cannot afford to shirk it
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