On  October 7, 2023,  Hamas massacred over 1200 civilians in Israel and kidnapped over 250 hostages. It is an attempt to justify the bombing and starvation of Palestinian civilians. Israel’s rules of engagement permit killing twenty civilians for each Hamas fighter killed, the highest The truth is that Israel has allowed under twenty percent  of necessary food to be delivered to Gaza. It resulted in the deaths of 16 Palestinians, and substantial damage to Palestinian homes, farms, and

WIRED Middle East Staff based on image from Getty Images The Illegality of Trump’s Threats to Destroy Civilian are therefore presumptively civilian objects.   objects and conduct causing excessive civilian harm.   Under US law, war crimes may be punished by life imprisonment or death. Sewage systems will collapse, the deaths will be counted in the tens of thousands, most of them civilians

Executions linked to protests The mission said Iran also intensified its use of the death penalty against amounted to crimes against humanity because they formed part of a widespread and systematic attack against civilians in Lamerd dispersed tungsten pellets over a sports complex and nearby residential area, killing 22 civilians The mission said the attacks amounted to indiscriminate strikes resulting in civilian deaths and damage to civilian objects.

“The only choice is to wait for death.” But most of the province’s three million people are civilians, and they are desperate for an end to the Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Syrians Whose ‘Only Choice Is to Wait for Death

Genocide Watch staff have published the twenty-ninth Timestream in a series of critical genocides in Sinhalese state and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam committed atrocities during the war, though Tamil civilians

UTC The Pakistani authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a husband and wife facing death Shafqat Emmanuel, who are Christians, have been in prison since 2013 and were convicted and sentenced to death “The mandatory death sentences for Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel are emblematic of the dangers Of further concern is the automatic and mandatory imposition of the death penalty, prohibited under international The mandatory death penalty does not allow judges the possibility of taking into account the personal

Jazeera) At least 53 people have died in western Ethiopia after an unidentified armed group attacked a civilian Twenty soldiers and three civilians were killed in the ambush, while 30 attackers died during the day-long According to the commission, the government soldiers stopped a bus, pulled out eight ethnic Tigrayan civilians The rights body did not say which security forces killed the civilians. The United Nations has said at least 15,000 Tigrayan civilians were arrested or imprisoned under a state

It resurfaced a decade later in 2021, systematically attacking civilians along with committing sexual accused the RDF and M23 of killing 11 civilians during counterattacks. Quantifying the death toll has been difficult. In February 2025, the M23 offensive on Goma resulted in between 900 and 2,000 deaths. in Goma has found further evidence of mass executions, sharing the discovery of records showing the deaths

Videos show paramilitary forces casually executing civilians. who made the arduous escape to a town 65 kilometers away brought accounts of terror, starvation and death Civilians who tried to smuggle food or medicine over the berm were beaten or killed. Limited Outrage Twenty years ago, celebrity activists like George Clooney made Darfur a cause célèbre

private military company Wagner Group for perpetration of war crimes, including the murder and torture of civilians The report detailed the killings of at least 34 civilians in seven localities in Mali between June 2023 prosecuted as required in proceedings that comply with the right to a fair trial, without recourse to the death HRW also condemned the use of violence against civilians, and warned that a deadly Russia-linked airstrike Nonetheless, FAMa has refuted allegations of wrongdoing, such as when 24 civilians were reportedly killed

Sudan Doctors Network says ‘deliberate suicide-drone attacks’ targeted a kindergarten and several civilian The death toll from Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on a kindergarten and other sites in the city According to the sources, the RSF attacked the kindergarten on Thursday and then returned to target civilians It’s the latest instance of RSF atrocities against civilians in the ongoing brutal civil war, now deep deaths from aerial bombardment, artillery fire and summary killings.

UNOCHA 9 March 2025 I   Peace and Security        Attacks across Ukraine on Friday reportedly left 21 civilians “With 21 civilians reported killed, 7 March was one of the deadliest days for civilians in Ukraine so The UN monitoring mission said all the civilian deaths and 79 of the 81 injured on 7 March occurred in Local authorities reported 21 civilians killed on both 8 January and 1 February. The UN monitoring mission said it will release its monthly protection of civilians update for February