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October 13, 2023

A view of destroyed vehicles near the grounds of the Supernova electronic music festival in southern Israel. © 2023 Ilia Yefimovich/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

Their atrocities do not justify your atrocities The world has been watching a descent into darkness in Israel-Palestine. Our message – to all parties – has been straightforward: Their atrocities do not justify your atrocities. And no parties are justified in deliberately killing or targeting civilians, targeting civilian infrastructure, or carrying out indiscriminate attacks.  Here is HRW’s latest work on the crisis: Questions and Answers: October 2023 Hostilities between Israel and Palestinian Armed Groups (10/09/2023) Israel/Palestine: Devastating Civilian Toll as Parties Flout Legal Obligations (10/09/2023) Hamas-Led Attack in Southern Israel Kills Hundreds (10/10/2023) With Gaza Sealed Off, Palestinians Face Aid Freezes Too (10/11/2023) Real or Fake? Verifying Video Evidence in Israel and Palestine (10/11/2023) How Not to Fight a War (10/12/2023) Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon (10/12/2023) For more of our work on Israel-Palestine, click here >>

Around the World

Rwanda’s Repression Across Borders Rwandan authorities are using violence, judicial mechanisms, and intimidation to try to silence criticism from Rwandans living around the world. Read More

World Court Begins Syria Torture Case The International Court of Justice hearings this week on state-sponsored torture in Syria since 2011 are critical for advancing justice. Read More

Chained Up, Locked Up, and Abused Sitting in a dusty courtyard of the Holy Ghost Coptic Church in Kisumu city, in western Kenya, I heard Paul (a pseudonym), approaching before I saw him. Clink. Clink. Clink… Read More

The Right(ish) Direction

Russia’s government was denied a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. At the 193-nation UN General Assembly this week, Russia asked to return to the council after the General Assembly voted to suspend its membership last year following its  full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The answer was No. True, China, which is responsible for crimes against humanity, was voted onto the Human Rights Council. But as HRW’s Andrew Stroehlein says, the fact “does not extinguish this lone flame of goodness.”

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