The last speech of prime minister and minister of defense Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by right-wing Israeli radical on November 4th 1995 in Tel Aviv.
Daily Archives: 4. August 2025
Understand that every decision Netanyahu makes, whether it‘s a war whose aims he has failed to achieve, attempts to gut the Israeli supreme court, or now illegally firing the AG prosecuting him, are all informed by his singular goal of staying in power.
Israeli Court Blocks Ouster of Attorney General Prosecuting Netanyahu
Israel‘s High Court of Justice on Monday issued an injunction blocking the ouster of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara after a unanimous Cabinet vote to fire the woman currently prosecuting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for corruption.
‘Our genocide’: Israeli rights groups abandon their restraint on Gaza
After 22 months of war, starvation, and systematic destruction, two of Israel’s leading human rights organizations have concluded that Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip constitute genocide.
This finding, issued Monday in two separate reports by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) and B’Tselem, marks a rupture within Israeli civil society. Until now, Israeli human rights organizations had largely stopped short of using the term “genocide,” even as Palestinian groups, Israeli genocide and Holocaust scholars, and international bodies like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Médecins Sans Frontières adopted it months ago.
Gaza death toll passes 60,800 as Israel continues brutal war on Palestinians
At least 60,839 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
A ministry statement said that 119 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 866 people were injured, taking the number of injuries to 149,588 in the Israeli onslaught.
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Israel-Gaza: The International Criminal Court in turmoil
This has been the darkest year for the International Criminal Court (ICC) since it opened its doors in The Hague in 2002. Never before had the institution faced such strong headwinds. The US imposed sanctions on four judges and the chief prosecutor, the British national Karim Khan, while threats, intrigue, and pressure from Washington mounted on state parties. The objective: to annul and prevent any arrest warrants against Israelis, including those targeting Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, issued on November 21, 2024, and to close the ongoing investigation into crimes committed on Palestinian territory.
‘Black Year for ICC’ – Le Monde Reveals Unprecedented Pressures on High Court‘
(August 2, 2025)
British lawyer Andrew Cayley, who was tasked with leading the ICC’s file on Palestine (ICC-01/18), said the months he spent working on the case in The Hague were the most difficult of his life.
“I went through the worst months of my life in The Hague,” Cayley told Le Monde.
He described receiving direct threats, including being told he was “an enemy of Israel” and warned to “watch his back.” He resigned in March 2024.
Le Monde also cited a July 17, 2024, intelligence memo from Dutch authorities warning that the ICC had become a “prime target for espionage and subversive influence” by states whose officials were at risk of prosecution.
Gaza starvation toll hits 180
Five more Palestinians have died from starvation in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported on Monday, raising the official toll to 180—including 93 children—since the start of Israel’s military campaign.
Five more people have died of hunger, as Israel continues to starve Gaza
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Monday that at least five adults have died from hunger or malnutrition in the last 24 hours, as Israel continues to restrict aid.
This raises the total number of hunger-related deaths in the territory to 180, including 93 children, according to the ministry.
Press Netanyahu to end Gaza war, former Israeli defense chiefs ask Trump in letter
These top officials, along with top former police and foreign ministry officials, lead the Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS) group – which now makes up over 600 former senior security officials – in making that call on Trump to intervene.
‚End Gaza war‘: 600 ex-Israeli security officials urge Trump
Over 600 retired Israeli security officials, including former heads of intelligence agencies, have urged United States President Donald Trump to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s government to end the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
The appeal was made in an open letter released on Monday.
The signatories included former chiefs of Shin Bet and Mossad, who argued that „Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel.“
Hundreds of Israeli ex-security officials call on Trump to end Gaza war
Hundreds of retired Israeli security officials urged US President Donald Trump on Monday to pressure the Israeli government into ending the war in Gaza, saying Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat and calling on the US leader to help „steer“ their country towards a ceasefire.