The Network · 2026-04-01 04:57:05 · Japan Times
The United Nations has issued a stark warning that Israel's application of a new death penalty law in the occupied West Bank could amount to a war crime. This places the Israeli government under immediate international legal scrutiny for a policy shift that directly targets Palestinians convicted in military courts for...
The Network · 2026-04-02 18:26:49 · Deadline
A prominent Lebanese artist has taken the extraordinary step of filing a formal war crime complaint in France, directly linking the killing of his parents to an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. Ali Cherri, a celebrated contemporary artist and filmmaker, has partnered with the Paris-based International Federation for Human ...
The Network · 2026-04-03 04:26:50 · Japan Times
President Trump’s public gloating over potential war crimes in Iran spotlights a direct and brazen challenge to the global order. His remarks, celebrating actions that could constitute grave breaches of international law, are not just rhetoric but part of a systematic campaign by his administration to undermine the ver...
The Network · 2026-04-09 10:56:51 · Bloomberg Markets
The head of the International Maritime Organization has issued a stark warning against Iran's potential move to impose tolls on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Such an action would establish a "dangerous and unacceptable precedent" for global shipping, directly challenging the principle of freedom of navigatio...
The Network · 2026-04-17 11:52:32 · Japan Times
The legal framework of modern warfare draws a stark red line: the deliberate starvation of civilians is a prohibited tactic. Under Article 54 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, it is explicitly forbidden to use starvation as a method of warfare against any civilian population. This prohibition ...