Israel resumed its genocidal military operation in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, March 18 with a massive overnight bombardment that killed 404 Palestinians before midday, including 263 women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Among the dead were 130 children killed by Israeli airstrikes on shelters where the children were sleeping with their families, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). By Wednesday, at least 436 Palestinians had been killed in strikes across Gaza, two-thirds of whom were women and children. The resumption of Israel’s indiscriminate...

On November 21, the International Criminal Court (ICC), after months of delay, finally issued arrest warrants as requested by the ICC Prosecutor for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Both men are charged with being directly responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip since October 8, 2023. The ICC Prosecutor on May 20, 2024, had also sought arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders for crimes committed on October 7, 2023, but at least two of the three are now dead. The head of Hamas’s political...