by Alessandra Bergamin | Sep 29, 2026 | Animals, Ecocide, environmental defenders, Guatemala, ICC, Indigenous Peoples, Indonesia, Israel, Lebanon, News, Palestine, Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, War, white phosphorous, Wildlife
In late April 2025, after 41-year-old farmer Oussama Farhat was discharged from the hospital, two pieces of shrapnel still lodged in his body, he hurried to check on an injured red fox. In his southern Lebanon village of Meiss el-Jabal, Farhat, a volunteer with the environmental organization Green Southerners, had helped rescue the cub from beneath the rubble of ongoing Israeli air strikes — the…
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by Marjorie Cohn | Dec 5, 2025 | Boat Strikes, command responsibility, crime against humanity, Crimes Against Humanity, Donald Trump, double tap, Drug War, ICC, International Criminal Court, Op-Ed, Pete Hegseth, Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, Venezuela, war on drugs
Public outrage is mounting over the Trump administration’s September 2 “double tap” strike, in which the U.S. military bombed a small boat for a second time to kill the survivors of a first strike. This particular strike has garnered significant attention due to its clear violation of U.S. and international law because shipwrecked sailors should never be targeted. But it is crucial to note that…
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