GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign Affairs Ministry ...

Editor: The Sumud Flotilla, consisting of 42 boats and humanitarians from 44 countries, attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Forty one boats have been listed as having been intercepted by ...

Editor: The recent letter claiming Israel’s interception of the “Sumud Flotilla” violated the Geneva Convention misrepresents both the facts and the law (Oct. 6). First, Article 23 of the Fourth ...

Smoke rises from an oil refinery in Havana Bay, Cuba, in February. The U.S. cutoff of oil shipments to Cuba has had deadly consequences. More than 90% of Cuba's electricity is dependent on oil-based ...

On August 12, 1949, the four Geneva Conventions were adopted, laying the basis of a normative standard in international humanitarian law. As Balthasar Staehelin, personal envoy of the International ...

In the last year there have been a record number of legislative efforts to block military actions, threatened or carried out by the Trump administration, that are seen as illegal or unconstitutional.

The concept of a ‘belligerent occupation’ does not apply here. What country owned the territory that Israel ‘occupied’? Not Jordan, which was there illegally, nor Britain, whose Mandate had ended, nor ...