Continuing People & Power’s series of films into how some of the world’s biggest corporations are facing trial, Juliana Ruhfus travels to the West Bank village of Bilin.
Villagers and protesters are taking their longstanding campaign against Israel’s seperation wall to the courts.
Helped by an Israeli legal maverick have now a filed a case against the international construction companies who are building the settlements.
They claim they have violated international human rights law by building on occupied land.
Israel’s army is accused of war crimes after more than 1,300 Palestinians were killed in the war on Gaza. In interviews published by a leading Israeli newspaper, Israeli soldiers say killing Palestinian civilians and destroying their homes was allowed in Israels rules of engagement during the war.
Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros reports from Jerusalem.
A group of former Israeli soldiers say they have new evidence of potential war crimes committed by the Israeli army during the war on Gaza. These are not the first allegations of war crimes levelled at the Israeli military and the claims have sparked a bitter debate within Israel’s defence forces and wider society over the “morality” of the IDF and its behaviour in Gaza.
The Israeli military has condemned the t-shirts worn by soldiers as “unacceptable,” which depict the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
The shirts came into fashion following disclosures that soldiers who took part in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza complained about rules of engagement allowing them to kill civilians and destroy property.
According to Human Rights Watch Israels use of white phosphorus in their offensive on the Gaza Strip constitutes a war crime”, which Israel strenuously denies. Phosphorus ignites in oxygen in temperatures of more than 30 degrees Celsius and daily temperatures were much hotter than that when the war was carried out in Gaza in January. It is almost impossible to put out, and if it comes into contact with human flesh it can burn to the bone. Sabah Abu Halima who lost her husband and four of her children in the war, tells her story.
Al Jazeera has tracked down the origin of the white phosphorus used by Israel in the war on Gaza. It comes from an army arsenal in a small US town called Pine Bluff, Arkansas, home to 50,000 people. Mike Kirsch travelled to Pine Bluff to discover what its residents and leaders thought of their town’s role in the war on Gaza.
Clancy Chassay asks why Israeli drones with optics capable of seeing the colour of a target’s clothes killed so many Palestinian civilians during the recent Gaza invasion.
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