War crimes

Australian former soldier gets bail on Afghanistan war crime charges

Police arrested and charged Ben Roberts-Smith, 47, with five counts of war crimes last week over the murder of five unarmed Afghan civilians between 2009 and 2012.

|ByREUTERS
Former Australian Defence Force soldier Ben Roberts-Smith's parents, Len and Sue Roberts-Smith, leave the Downing Centre Courts after Ben Roberts-Smith was granted bail in Sydney, Australia, April 17, 2026.
A member of Iranian militia forces (Basij) attends an anti-Israeli march in Tehran, Iran, January 10, 2025.

Iran's war crimes: Behind the IRGC's recruitment of 12-year-olds - analysis

The 12-year-olds registering at mosques in Tehran may get the same chance to stop believing if the regime around them collapses.

|ByALEX WINSTON
L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

The moral barometer: Iran uses its people as live targets, as America values every life - opinion

Let’s not forget for one moment that one nation here believes in civilized democracy, while the other tortures its own people.

|ByFELICE FRIEDSON/THE MEDIA LINE
A view of a residential building damaged by a strike in Tehran, Iran, March 23, 2026.

US strikes on Iran may constitute war crimes, international law experts announce

Trump, who has previously offered shifting timelines and objectives for the war, said in a televised speech on Wednesday that the war could escalate if Iran did not give in to Washington's terms.

|ByREUTERS

IDF denies Green Beret claims of indiscriminate shooting, tank fire at Gaza aid sites

IDF rejected claims of violence against civilians at Gaza aid distribution site made by a US veteran and ex-GHF worker in a BBC interview.

JULY 28, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Palestinian man shows blood stains on his palm after he carried casualties among people seeking aid supplies from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025

I am a war scholar - there is no genocide in Gaza - opinion

I have reviewed their orders, watched their targeting process, and seen soldiers take real risks to avoid harming civilians. Nothing I have seen or studied resembles genocide or genocidal intent.

JULY 27, 2025ByJOHN SPENCER
Palestinians carry aid supplies that entered Gaza through Israel, in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, July 27, 2025

Assessing Russian crimes against Ukraine at deeper levels - opinion

The crimes perpetrated against Ukraine are even worse than the objective facts suggest, leaving observers with just a superficial understanding of cumulative harms.

JULY 23, 2025ByLOUIS RENÉ BERES
SERVICE MEMBERS of the National Guard of Ukraine wait before firing toward Russian troops, at a position in a front line, amid Russia’s attack on their country last Saturday in the Kharkiv region.

Israel is not guilty of genocide in Gaza - opinion

Tens of thousands of Gazans have died in Israel's retaliatory war against Hamas, but the war was launched in response to Hamas's October 7 attack.

JULY 22, 2025BySHERWIN POMERANTZ
AN IDF vehicle crosses the border back into Israel from Gaza last week. The war was not preplanned by Israel, nor was there ever any ‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group,’ the writer notes.

Reservist org. to provide legal aid to two IDF soldiers arrested at Belgium music festival

Two soldiers were arrested by Belgian authorities following a complaint filed by the Hind Rajab Foundation, an anti-Israel legal organization pursuing legal action against IDF soldiers.

JULY 21, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Reserve soldiers of the IDF's Hasmonean Brigade operate in the Gaza Strip on June 26, 2025.

Two IDF soldiers arrested in Belgium, investigated for war crimes accusations

The Hind Rajab Foundation said the two Israeli soldiers were visiting Belgium to participate in the Tomorrowland music festival.

JULY 21, 2025ByYOAV ETIEL, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israelis and Iranians meet at Tomorrowland Festival in Belgium, holding both Israeli and Iranian flags.

Former PM Ehud Olmert calls Katz's humanitarian city plan a 'concentration camp'

Katz recently said that the Defense Ministry would build a new 'humanitarian city' in the Rafah area for at least 600,000 Palestinians.

JULY 14, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024.

RCMP: Israeli Canadians could be investigated for Gaza-based war crimes

The RCMP confirmed to The Jerusalem Report that it had launched a “structural investigation” into the Israel-Hamas conflict in early 2024 as part of its mandate to investigate war crimes.

JUNE 29, 2025ByGIL LEWINSKY
PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters demonstrate outside the Liberal Party of Canada holiday party in Ottawa.

Knesset sanctions two MKs for accusing IDF of war crimes

The most severe sanction was issued against Hadash-Ta’al chairman MK Ayman Odeh, who is already facing impeachment in a separate procedure.

JUNE 23, 2025ByELIAV BREUER
The Knesset

Are Israelis facilitating an anti-Israel blood libel? - opinion

By assisting the libelous pro-jihadi gospels of a “genocide” and such, they lend a hand to nailing us all to a new cross of antisemitism.

JUNE 15, 2025ByYISRAEL MEDAD
MOSHE YA’ALON, who has held the positions of defense minister and IDF chief of staff, speaks during the Tel Aviv Conference at Tel Aviv University in May 2025.