Québec judge refuses provisional injunction to disband McGill encampment
The Superior Court of Québec ruled on Wednesday against granting an interlocutory injunction brought by Canada’s McGill University to dismantle a pro-Palestine encampment on its campus. Justice Marc St-Pierre determined in his decision that the encampment’s presence was not sufficiently urgent to warrant an injunction, given the difficult issues of enjoyment of property and freedom [...]
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo decried the vandalization of the Shoah Memorial, a memorial dedicated to the Holocaust and Jewish history during the Second World War, as “unspeakable” in a press release issued in the French capital on Tuesday. Overnight Monday, about 20 red hands were spray painted on the Shoah Memorial, including the Wall of [...]
Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a law student at Vermont Law & Graduate School and a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. On Saturday May 11 Pitasanna participated in Day 10 of the student-led encampment calling for the University of Toronto to divest from funding Israeli institutions allegedly involved in sustaining the [...]
An attack in Rafah killed a United Nations staff member working there, UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced on Monday. The Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq, said that one staff member from the Department of Safety and Security (DSS) had been killed and another injured “when their UN vehicle was struck as they traveled [...]
UN leaders urgently call on Israel to avoid large scale offensive in Rafah
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk reminded world leaders on Sunday that a general assault by Israel in the Gazan city of Rafah “cannot be reconciled with the binding demands of international humanitarian law, or the binding provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).” Türk’s statement came just a day [...]
Egypt announces intention to intervene in South Africa ICJ case against Israel
Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday announced the country intends to file a declaration of intervention in South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Egypt’s announcement follows several other countries’ requests to intervene in the case. In their statement, the ministry said the intervention comes in light of Israel’s [...]
At least 97 journalists killed in Israel-Hamas War: CPJ report
At least 97 journalists and media works have been killed in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a preliminary count of media workers released Saturday. This conflict has proven to be the deadliest for media workers since CPJ began systematically documenting such tragedies in 1992. According to CPJ, working [...]
Libya files intervention in South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel
Libya filed a declaration of intervention Friday before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) now underway in the UN’s principal court. Libya stated that it filed the declaration because [...]
South Africa requests additional measures from ICJ in light of Israel operations in Rafah
South Africa made an application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday requesting additional provisional measures and the modification of previous provisional measures against Israel. The request came after the recent Israeli military incursion in Rafah and an order from Israel for refugees to evacuate Rafah. The new measures call for Israel to [...]
The United Nationals Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) closed its East Jerusalem office on Friday amidst two arson attacks from Israeli extremists. The closure follows scrutiny of the UNRWA due to its investigations into Israeli allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the October 7 Hamas attacks. In [...]
