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Hind Rajab Foundation Calls On United States To Arrest Israeli Soldier

June 17, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
On 16 June, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) formally requested that the US Department of Justice arrest and prosecute US-Israeli dual national Jake Burkons, who is currently attending the 2026 FIFA World Cup, over war crimes committed in Gaza. The foundation states that Burkons is involved in war crimes and acts of genocide committed in the Gaza Strip. This action follows a criminal complaint filed by the group last month in Sri Lanka, where Burkons had been vacationing. The report details that Burkons served in Company D of the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion, a unit within the 7th Armored Brigade of the Israeli army, and had enlisted voluntarily following the launch of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza on 7 October 2023. 

New School Students Sanction Group Over Israeli Military Program

May 13, 2026 Joseph Mogul, Truthout. , , , , ,
Ryder Glickman’s first day as chair of The New School University Student Senate (USS) was an eventful one. His inaugural act was to call a vote on a first-of-its-kind resolution to sanction Hillel at The New School. This vote followed the release of a 38-page report detailing Hillel’s potential violations of international law. The report, conducted by a student committee, outlines Hillel’s participation in programs with the Israeli military. Before and during Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the campus organization was linked to a volunteer program at Israeli military bases from which attacks on Gaza and Lebanon originated.

Israeli Navy Goes 700 Miles To Attack Unarmed Gaza Flotilla Boats

April 30, 2026 Colonel Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
In the evening of Wednesday, April 29, 2026, Israeli naval forces attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to Gaza.  An unknown number of Israeli military ships went over 700 miles to attack a 54 ship flotilla that was headed for Gaza to attempt to break the illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and bring worldwide attention to the continuing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, Israeli ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, the destruction and occupation of southern Lebanon and the attacks on Iran. 21 boats were attacked by Israeli naval forces about 80 nautical miles west of the Greek island of Crete in international waters. 

Israeli War Chief Threatens Lebanon

April 18, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened on 17 April that the Lebanon ceasefire is “temporary,” while vowing that occupation forces will not withdraw from the country’s south.  The war chief said the Israeli army “holds and will continue to hold all the areas it has cleared and captured.” “The ground maneuver into Lebanon and the strikes against Hezbollah throughout Lebanon have achieved many accomplishments, but they have not yet been completed,” he added.  “We are inside Lebanon in the midst of a war against Hezbollah, with a temporary freeze and a 10-day ceasefire.

Iran Mobilizing One Million Soldiers To ‘Create Hell’ For US Ground Assault

March 27, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Iran is mobilizing one million soldiers to repel any potential ground invasion launched by the US army against the Islamic Republic, an Iranian military source told Tasnim News Agency on 26 March. “With the growing speculation about the possibility of a historical folly by the US in launching a ground invasion on the southern front of Iran, a wave of enthusiasm has emerged among Iranian ground fighters to create a historical hell for the Americans on Iranian soil,” the source said. The source added that “in addition to organizing more than one million fighters for ground combat, in recent days there has been a massive influx of requests from Iranian youth directed towards the centers of Basij, the IRGC, and the Army to also participate in this battle.”

Hind Rajab Foundation Files Complaint In US Court Against Israeli

February 5, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Belgium-based NGO, Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), filed a legal complaint in a US court on 4 February, demanding a criminal investigation into Israeli dual-national Adi Karni, a former sergeant in the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion of the Israeli army, over war crimes and genocidal acts committed in Gaza. The filing was submitted while Karni was physically present in the US, where he is scheduled to speak publicly at Boston University. HRF said his presence “directly engages US jurisdiction” and triggers a legal obligation to investigate under federal law.

Tulane Students Disrupt IDF Event, Resist Police Repression

November 5, 2025 Annabelle Jones, Fight Back! News. , , ,
New Orleans, LA – On the night of Monday, November 3, 60 Tulane students and community members gathered for a noise demonstration to protest the first stop of a national “Combat on Campus Tour” of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers. The IDF event was hosted by Tulane Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at the Chabad Center of Louisiana near Tulane University’s campus. Protesters, called together by Together United Louisiana Students for a Democratic Society (TUL SDS), banged pots, pans and drums to disrupt the two IDF soldiers who came to share “their firsthand stories from October 7 and the war that followed.”

Leaked US State Department Docs Unveil First Formal Acknowledgment Of Israeli Units Committing Gross Rights Abuses

November 1, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
A classified US State Department report found that Israeli soldiers committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of US human rights law in the Gaza Strip that would require “multiple years” to review, the Washington Post reported on 31 October. Details of the report prepared by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General were provided to The Post by two US officials. The report has, for the first time, “acknowledged the scale of Israeli actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of Leahy Laws, the landmark legislation that bars US security assistance to foreign military units credibly accused of gross human rights abuses,” the newspaper wrote. However, the Office of Inspector General report “raised doubts about the prospects for accountability for Israel’s actions given the large backlog of incidents and the nature of the review process, which is deferential to the Israel Defense Forces,” The Post added.

Investigation Identifies Over 20 Israeli Soldiers Behind Hind Rajab’s Killing

October 22, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
A new Al Jazeera documentary released on 20 October has identified the Israeli soldiers and officers who were directly involved in the killing of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and her family last year, as well as the rescue workers who were dispatched to the scene. The investigation reveals the involvement of the Israeli army’s 401st Brigade. This includes Lt. Col. Daniel Ela and field officer Maj. Shon Glass. According to the report, Glass was the one who ordered Israeli troops to fire the tank shells that killed the Rajab family in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa. He also ordered the attack on the ambulance teams sent to the rescue.

Global Sumud Flotilla Updates Following Illegal Interception And Abductions

October 2, 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla, Popular Resistance. , , , , ,
Mediterranean Sea – After Israeli occupation naval forces illegally intercepted vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla —a peaceful, non-violent convoy carrying food, baby formula, medicine, and volunteers from 47 countries to Gaza—hundreds of participants have been abducted and reportedly taken aboard the large naval vessel, the MSC Johannesburg. This was after they were assaulted with water cannons, doused with skunk water, and had their communications systematically jammed in yet more acts of aggression against unarmed civilians. Additionally, several boats were reportedly stopped by a chain-like barrier in international waters where Israel has no jurisdiction, just as they have no jurisdiction over Gaza’s waters and shoreline, compounding Israel’s continued war crimes and illegal blockade.

The Hunt For Anas Al-Sharif’s Killers

August 12, 2025 Hind Rajab Foundation. , , , , , ,
By any measure, Anas Al-Sharif should still be alive. On the morning of 10 August 2025, the 28-year-old Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent was doing what he had done since the first days of the Gaza onslaught—reporting from the frontlines, armed only with a camera and a press vest. Outside the main gate of Al Shifa Hospital, in one of the last corners of northern Gaza where journalists could still work, Al-Sharif was filing footage of bombardments that shook the streets around him. Moments later, a missile struck the tent where he and his colleagues were sheltering. Seven people died instantly. Among them: Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa—four Al Jazeera journalists who, like Al-Sharif, had refused to stop documenting the Genocide. Mohammed Al-Khaldi, also a journalist who worked for Sahat Media Platform, and Saad Jundiya, a Palestinian civilian who happened to be present in the scene at the time of attack were also killed.

Israel’s Government Issues ‘Death Sentence’ To Remaining Captives

August 10, 2025 Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. , , , , , , , ,
In June 2024, after Israel’s army slaughtered over 200 civilians in Gaza’s Nuseirat Refugee Camp, including several execution style killings to extricate a hostage, Noa Argamani, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced a new policy: if Israel soldiers came too close to areas where captives were held, the prisoners would lose their lives. Israel’s refusal to heed this policy led to the killing of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five others just over two months later. Now, in a fit of desperation, after failing to force the hand of Hamas through imposed famine and previous campaigns of military pressure, Israel’s security cabinet has approved plans to ethnically cleanse the whole of Gaza City and occupy urban areas where captives might be located.

Israeli Youth Burn Their IDF Draft Orders To Protest Gaza War

July 20, 2025 Al Bawaba. , , , ,
An Israeli human rights activist called Itamar Greenberg recently captured a protest in Tel Aviv showcasing Israeli youth burning their IDF draft orders in protest of the ongoing aggression on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. The video circulating on X (formerly known as Twitter) garnered hundreds of thousands of views on the social media platform, with many fellow activists praising the protestors for their courage and bravery. Burning the IDF draft orders showcases the activists' refusal to take part in Israel's ongoing aggression on Gaza.

1,500 Israeli Soldiers Will Attend Jewish Summer Camps In North America

July 1, 2025 Aaron Kreuter, Mondoweiss. , , , , , ,
It’s June, which means a similar scene is playing out at tens of thousands of Jewish houses across the continent. Duffel bags dug up from basements. Toiletries laid out on carpeted floors, emergency trips to the drug store for one final item. Last-minute clothing decisions. Bags of carefully curated candy. Tearful midnight goodbyes to school friends. For so many of us Jewish North Americans, the summers of our younger years mean one thing: sleepover camp. Unfortunately, it’s not just Jewish kids, teenagers, and twenty-somethings getting ready to go to one of the hundreds of Jewish camps in North America.

On Her Seventh Birthday, We Know Who Killed Hind Rajab

May 5, 2025 The Hind Rajab Foundation. , , , , ,
Today, little Hind Rajab should have been blowing out candles on her 7th birthday. On this day of remembrance and heartbreak, the Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a war crimes complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. After a year of tireless investigation, we have identified the military unit responsible, as well as the commander who led the operation that killed Hind, her family, and the two medics who tried to save her. The Commander, the Brigade, the Battalion We now publicly name the commander responsable for killing Hind: Lieutenant Colonel Beni Aharon Commander of the 401st Armored Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at the time of the killing.
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