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Multiple recent reports and rights-group statements allege that Israeli security forces have used dogs to intimidate, maul and in some testimonies to sexually assault Palestinian detainees, including ...
Multiple credible UN and human-rights reports and several NGOs and news outlets document allegations that Israeli forces have used dogs to attack, intimidate and sexually assault Palestinian detainees...
The claim that the Red Cross is a "Rothschild money laundering front" that gives only 5% of donations to charity, spreads incurable diseases, and runs global child and human trafficking rings is not s...
International law prohibits deliberate attacks on civilian ships unless they have become lawful military targets; key legal regimes cited by experts include International Humanitarian Law (distinction...
The available reports present for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as of 2025; official tallies and independent trackers diverge sharply, producing a range rather than a single figure. Palestinian aut...
Collective punishment—penalizing a group for acts committed by individuals—has long roots in military practice but is now banned under modern international humanitarian law because it targets the inno...
Multiple human-rights organisations and dozens of released Palestinian detainees have given consistent testimonial allegations that Israeli guards used dogs to attack, humiliate and — in several accou...
The United States faces allegations that lethal strikes on suspected drug-smuggling vessels in international waters may violate multiple bodies of international law, including the law of the sea, inte...
The Nobel Peace Prize has a long history of serving not only as reward for completed peacemaking but also as a symbolic lever meant to amplify influence, protect dissidents, or spotlight nascent cause...
U.S. military law and practice require all service members not to follow unlawful orders, but the obligations and practical burdens differ by rank: enlisted personnel are taught to obey lawful orders ...
Since October 7, 2023, published counts of Israeli deaths vary, with the data in the provided material placing Israeli fatalities in a range centered roughly between and civilian deaths commonly repor...
Adolf Eichmann escaped to Argentina in 1950 and remained there under the alias , sheltered by a mix of clandestine ratlines, forged or humanitarian travel documents, and a receptive expatriate environ...
The "271k" figure is not the product of a modern demographic model but of selective, decontextualized use of limited archival counts and misapplied administrative tallies — a number that Holocaust den...
International and humanitarian bodies have not issued a single, conclusive finding that Israel is currently harvesting organs from Palestinian corpses; reporting shows repeated allegations from Gaza a...
Hamas returned all 20 living Israeli hostages and 26 bodies under the October ceasefire, and Israel freed nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees in exchange; two additional deceased captives’ remains rema...
U.S. service members are legally required to refuse orders that are unlawful; following an illegal order is not a defense and can expose a subordinate to criminal liability under U.S. and internationa...
There is no single text in the Geneva Conventions or their Additional Protocols that defines the phrase “manifestly unlawful order” as a standalone legal term; rather, sources treat the duty to disobe...
U.S. service members are legally required to refuse manifestly illegal orders such as those that breach the Geneva Conventions; following an unlawful order is not a defense, and individuals can be pro...
Military and police law set different but overlapping standards for when an order is “unlawful.” For service members UCMJ Article 92 and case law treat orders as presumptively lawful and require refus...
International humanitarian law (IHL) embodied in the Geneva Conventions obliges states and commanders to respect humanitarian rules and treats certain acts—“grave breaches”—as criminal regardless of o...