Israel’s July strikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port a ‘possible war crime’: HRW
The Israeli air strikes appeared to be an indiscriminate or disproportionate attack on civilians which may amount to a war crime, says the Human Rights Watch.
Israel said on July 20 its warplanes struck Houthi military targets near Hodeidah. The attack targeted oil facilities and a power station and HRW said it killed at least six people and wounded at least 80.
It took place a day after a Houthi drone hit Israel’s economic hub Tel Aviv, killing one person, which HRW said also may constitute a war crime.
The retaliatory Israeli air strikes on Hodeidah hit more than two dozen oil storage tanks and two shipping cranes in the port, as well as a power plant in the province’s as-Salif district, the rights group said.
“The attacks appeared to cause disproportionate harm to civilians and civilian objects. Serious violations of the laws of war committed willfully, that is deliberately or recklessly, are war crimes.”
UK court receives case detailing Israeli war crimes: Report
Lawyers seeking an order to prevent the United Kingdom’s government from continuing to grant arms export licences to UK companies selling arms to Israel have submitted their case to the high court in London, according to the Guardian newspaper.
The lawsuit is backed up by 14 witness statements by Palestinian and Western medical doctors, covering more than 100 pages and including descriptions of Palestinians being tortured, left untreated in hospital and unable to escape constant Israeli bombardment in Gaza, the report said.
The case has been brought by an alliance of NGOs, including Al-Haq, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), Amnesty International, Oxfam and Human Rights Watch, according to the Guardian.
The report said this was the first attempt to put such graphic testimony of alleged Israeli war crimes in front of a British judge since October 7 last year.
Five suspects in Sde Tieman rape case interrogated: Report
Israel’s Channel 12 reports that Israeli military police are currently interrogating five suspects in the Sde Teiman prisoner abuse case who are under house arrest.
Ten soldiers were initially arrested for the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner by the guards on July 29.
Military prosecutors released three of the arrested soldiers on August 4, adding to the two previously released by investigators following a military court hearing in Kfar Yona on July 30.
