'Recognition must be the start of a sustained process through which Britain finally fulfils its historic responsibility to advance Palestinian self-determination' - Statement from Britain Palestine Project on the UK's recognition of the state of Palestine britainpalestineproject.org/wp-content/u...

‘With attention on Gaza, the [Israeli] government has advanced policies that are driving Palestinians into shrinking pockets of the West Bank.’ A dead teenager, a besieged village and the relentless march of the West Bank settlers - Isabel Coles, Al-Mughayyir observer.co.uk/news/interna...

UK recognition of the State of Palestine was a promise made to my great grandfather decades ago. While on its own, recognition won’t solve anything without further action, it is a down payment on peace. Today we have just a little more hope, and hope is contagious. 📻 on BBC world service this AM:

LPHR strongly welcomes the legally rigorous & compelling analysis by UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory finding the State of Israel is responsible for committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023 lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

Israel prevents British Jewish MP and Labour Party colleague from entering occupied West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-deports-uk-labour-mps-just-days-after-israeli-presidents-london-visit

LPHR strongly welcomes the legally rigorous & compelling analysis by UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory finding the State of Israel is responsible for committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023 lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

“Economic life in Gaza has been decimated by sheer physical destruction, blockade and siege, and repeated forced displacement” - UN experts warn of economic emergency and catastrophic harm to human rights stemming from Israel’s attacks on Gaza & stranglehold across OPT www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Doctors and medical staff at the largest hospital still functioning in Gaza say they will be overwhelmed by a wave of new wounded and sick patients if hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee the north in the face of an intensifying Israeli offensive www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘In an instant, this Tuesday, Gaza city was handed a death sentence - leave or be killed.’ Briefing by Olga Cherevko, OCHA Spokesperson in Gaza, to journalists in UN Headquarters in New York www.ochaopt.org/content/when...

I can’t believe my eyes, I can’t. Incomprehensible levels of destruction. Worse than wasteland. A once teaming, lively, bustling hub of life, eradicated. There’s no justification for this, none. Jabalia camp completely destroyed

A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

We @soclawireland.bsky.social issues a statement of solidarity with members of Al-Haq and members of the Palestinian delegation to the UN in response to the US sanctions issued against them for their collaboration with the ICC investigation

🆕🇪🇺 The EU must amend and activate the Blocking Statute to shield Palestinian NGOs and others from US sanctions. If it truly stands for the rule of law, the EU cannot let these draconian measures obstruct the pursuit of justice for Israel’s crimes at the ICC. Our statement: mezan.org/en/post/46772

The Crown Prosecution Service's counter terrorism division has appointed a senior specialist prosecutor to "urgently" review an application for an arrest warrant against Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Middle East Eye reports www.middleeasteye.net/news/met-pol...

“Children in Gaza are enduring unimaginable suffering due to acute malnutrition, starvation and conditions of famine” - UN Committee on the Rights of the Child condemns using starvation of children as weapon of war www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Israel has ordered a complete evacuation of Gaza City, home to around a million Palestinians, as part of military takeover threatening “more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes” www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/m...

Looking forward to participating in this week's webinar with colleagues from @icjpalestine.com @hindrajabfoundation.be, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Law for Palestine. Registration is open here: t.co/Z5z8bYShH6

How Gaza is even more dangerous for deaf Palestinians who can’t hear missiles coming www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Israel’s supreme court has ruled that the government has failed to provide Palestinian security prisoners with adequate food for basic subsistence, contrary to legal obligation, and ordered authorities to improve their nutrition www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

An Israeli strike has destroyed a second high-rise building in Gaza City, as the military demanded residents move to a so-called humanitarian zone in the south of the territory, and slaughtered at least another 56 Palestinians, including aid-seekers www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

45 UN experts have issued an urgent appeal for an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly to demand an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestine, as genocide and a man-made famine unfold in Gaza. law4palestine.org/unified-call...

Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - leading human rights organisations working on international criminal accountability for perpetrators of atrocity crimes in Palestine- condemn US sanctions imposed on them under Executive Order 14203 www.alhaq.org/advocacy/266...

These Palestinian human rights organisations have issued the following call to States, the international community, the United Nations and human rights organizations and defenders:

Only one in four Palestinians captured by Israeli forces in Gaza were identified by the army as militants, with civilians making up the vast majority of “unlawful combatants” detained in Israeli prisons since October 7, joint investigation reveals www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

“Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted and murdered by Israeli forces, and are arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation... By silencing those who document and bear witness, Israel is silencing the war” - @pressfreedom.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

RSF and Avaaz launch international media operation calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists: “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed” rsf.org/en/rsf-and-a...

UK bars Israeli defense officials from London arms fair over Gaza war www.ynetnews.com/article/hy9b...

Israel struck Nasser Hospital at least four times during its deadly attack in southern Gaza on Monday, an analysis of new video footage by BBC Verify has found. The attack reportedly killed at least 20 people, including five journalists www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UN experts alarmed by reports of enforced disappearances of starving Palestinian civilians seeking food aid at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution sites www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Al-Mezan 'is deeply alarmed by false claims made by the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesperson that there are “empty areas” in southern Gaza' to accommodate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that would again be forcibly displaced by the takeover of Gaza City mezan.org/en/post/46757

Dutch and Swedish foreign ministers send joint letter to the EU foreign affairs chief urging tougher action on Gaza/Israel. Note penultimate bullet point: the Commission is supposed to have drawn up an analysis about whether the EU itself is in compliance with International Court of Justice opinion

How Israel Is Funding Settler Violence To Overrun Palestinian Villages in the West Bank Jewish residents of agricultural outposts are using force to accelerate the decades-long process of annexing the occupied territory Jessica Buxbaum newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...

Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund, the world's largest, has divested from US construction equipment group Caterpillar, based on assessments of its bulldozers ‘being used by Israeli authorities in the widespread unlawful destruction of Palestinian property’ www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Israeli forces killed dozens in Gaza on Tuesday as tanks and warplanes levelled entire blocks in Gaza City.

We are heartbroken by the death of Mariam Abu Dagga, a freelance photographer who frequently worked with Doctors Without Borders in #Gaza. Mariam was one of at least 20 people killed during Israel’s horrendous attacks on the Nasser medical complex on August 25, 2025.

Israel’s strikes on the Nasser hospital in Gaza targeted a civilian building in a reckless double-tap strike that killed civilians, with rescue workers and journalists among them - all categories that should be protected under international law www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital complex in Gaza have killed at least 15 people, including four journalists, Palestinian health officials report inews.co.uk/news/world/r...

13 hours ago: “Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, incl people sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food, local hospitals said as a famine in Gaza’s largest city sparks new pressure on Israel over its 22-month offensive." apnews.com/article/isra...

Israel destroyed Gaza’s sanitation plants and is deliberately depriving people of water in Gaza according to @msf.ca . Now acute flaccid paralysis, a rare and deadly paralytic disease, is spreading unchecked www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine. Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

The Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has confirmed for the first time today that famine is present in Gaza, specifically in Gaza City and affecting approximately 500,000 Palestinians. Our statement: lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

LPHR urgently asks whether today’s catastrophic update confirming famine in Gaza for the first time will finally compel the international community to respond with all necess & lawful measures to end the govt of Israel’s obvious policies of annihilation of the Palestinian civilian population of Gaza

🚨 REACTION: Al Mezan hopes @theipcinfo.bsky.social’s formal famine declaration in the Gaza Governorate will be a turning point. The international community has no excuse left. Urgent, effective action is needed. Empty statements won’t feed the hungry. Full statement ⤵️⤵️ mezan.org/en/post/46754

🔴 #GazaStrip #Famine is confirmed in #Gaza Governorate, projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis Governorates by the end of September. 📄 Read more: www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

This is absolutely devastating. As a journalist reporting on starvation in Gaza while my colleagues have been killed has been disturbing, especially knowing these two things are connected since per Amartya Sen famine is usually *created* including through repression of press, information

The Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has confirmed for the first time today that famine is present in Gaza, specifically in Gaza City and affecting approximately 500,000 Palestinians. Our statement: lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

‘The Israeli govt’s advancement of the E1 settlement plan would effectively separate the northern & central West Bank from the south, further threaten the territorial contiguity of the OPT, and heighten risk of forced displacement of Palestinian Bedouin communities’ www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...

For years, decades even, the EU presented the E1 as the absolute red line. If Israel would move to build this settlement block, bisecting the West Bank, that would be the death knell of the Palestinian state, and that could not happen. Now Israel is moving forward with E1, openly mocking the EU.

Data from an internal Israeli intelligence database indicates that at least 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza were civilians, contradicting by a huge margin the public statements of Israeli army and government officials www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

New: LPHR briefing outlines key obligations by ICC member states to enforce arrest warrants and examines Hungary's non-compliance in failing to enforce warrant against Israel’s PM Netanyahu as significantly impeding the Court’s ability to administer justice & end impunity lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...