Rights lawyers file suit in Argentina demanding Netanyahu's arrest

The Israeli Prime Minister is reportedly planning to visit Javier Milei in Buenos Aires in September

News Desk

AUG 30, 2025

https://thecradle.co/articles/rights-lawyers-file-suit-in-argentina-demanding-netanyahus-arrest

A team of human rights lawyers announced on 29 August that they filed a criminal complaint in Argentina's federal courts seeking the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he visit the country.

Unconfirmed media reports say Netanyahu plans to visit the South American nation in September.

An arrest warrant was issued for Netanyahu in November by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes, including deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza.

"It is understood that Netanyahu is criminally responsible as a co-perpetrator of the war crime of intentionally causing death by starvation; of crimes against humanity such as homicide, persecution, and other inhumane acts," said the complaint reviewed by Reuters.

Argentine human rights attorney Rodolfo Yanzon and Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, filed the criminal complaint, which includes a call to investigate the role played by Israeli authorities in the brutal murder of 15 Palestinian paramedics in Gaza on 23 March.

Israeli soldiers executed the paramedics "one by one" and then buried them in a mass grave. The soldiers then tried to bury a fire truck belonging to the rescuers to hide evidence of the killing.

According to Clarin, Netanyahu may choose not to travel to Buenos Aires to meet with Argentine President Javier Milei. Instead, the two leaders may meet in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly at the end of September.

Since the start of Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, Milei has proved to be one of Netanyahu's strongest supporters among world leaders.

Milei has sought to establish closer ties between South American nations and Israel and was awarded the Genesis Prize in Jerusalem in June in recognition of his support for Israel.

"Although born and raised Roman Catholic, Milei has increasingly shown public interest in Judaism and even expressed intentions to convert," PBS added.

In May, authorities in Peru opened a criminal investigation against an Israeli soldier accused of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip during 2023–2024, according to the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF).

The investigation was initiated following a complaint filed by prominent human rights lawyer Julio César Arbizu González against an Israeli soldier who was reportedly visiting Peru as a tourist.

The complaint alleged that the soldier served as a combat engineer and took part in the "methodical and systematic destruction of civilian neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip."

Founded in September 2024, the Hind Rajab Foundation is named after a Palestinian girl who was brutally murdered, along with several members of her family and first responders seeking to rescue her, by Israeli tank gunners in Gaza.

The organization gathers open-source intelligence on Israeli soldiers, including details of their military service, aiming to facilitate prosecutions abroad.

“This is Eternal Displacement”: Israeli Onslaught on Gaza City Forcing Thousands to Flee with Nowhere to Go

“No one is spared—no old person, no child, no woman. No human being is spared.”

Abdel Qader Sabbah

Aug 27, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-displacement-israeli-offensive-saftawi

GAZA CITY—Israeli tanks backed by warplanes and quadcopters are pushing deeper into Gaza City, destroying entire neighborhoods and leaving people with nowhere to go. The escalating assault comes amid a widening famine, with Palestinians starving to death every day. Airstrikes continue to pound civilians in central and southern Gaza. It has been one of the deadliest periods for journalists since Israel’s assault began, with at least 11 journalists killed in two bombardments just two weeks apart.

Palestinians are describing the assault by the Israeli military to seize and ethnically cleanse Gaza City—Gaza’s largest city, where up to a million people are currently seeking shelter—as the end game.

On Tuesday, residents in al-Saftawi neighborhood, just north of Sheikh Radwan in Gaza City, were forced to flee in the thousands as Israel’s ground assault bore down, with tanks and warplanes leveling entire blocks.

“For about a week now, it’s been constant bombing, shelling, and destruction,” Ramy, a resident being displaced from al-Saftawi, told Drop Site on Tuesday. “Today we were shocked when the army raided our area and bombed it. We were terrified, really terrified. A quadcopter came and they told us: ‘You have six hours to evacuate.’”

As he spoke, people scrambled to pile thin mattresses and scant belongings onto the few cars, motorized rickshaws, and donkey carts in the area. Most streamed out on foot, carrying nothing more than plastic bags. Over 90% of Gaza’s population has been displaced since the beginning of the war, most of them multiple times.

“We’re leaving, but we don’t know where to go. We want to leave, but to where? There is no safe place in Gaza. Even going south is difficult, and circumstances are hard. To go from the north to the south—you have no money, no transportation. It’s extremely difficult, disastrous. There is no healthcare, no food, no aid, no tents, no anything,” Ramy said. “This is eternal displacement. Not just forced—eternal. What we’re seeing is that it’s eternal. Our children are getting sick, our women are getting sick, people are dying from hunger, and in the end we’re being displaced.”

The clearing out of Palestinians from al-Saftawi comes as Israel focuses heavy bombardment and shelling on three of Gaza City’s eastern areas—Shejaiya, Zeitoun, and Sabra.

Between August 14, when Israel announced its offensive on Gaza City, and August 25, more than 36,200 Palestinians have been displaced, including over 11,600 from the north to the south, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The majority of people displaced came from neighborhoods in Gaza City, with more than two thirds going to Deir al-Balah in central Gaza and nearly a third to Khan Younis.

“The situation we’re living in is tragic, extremely tragic. No one is spared—no old person, no child, no woman. No human being is spared,” a man displaced from Jabalia Al-Nazla, told Drop Site. “What’s happening now is forced displacement—non-voluntary.”

Church leaders in Gaza City on Wednesday announced they would not leave the city. “Trying to flee to the south would be nothing less than a death sentence,” they said. The joint statement by the Greek Orthodox and Latin Patriarchates of Jerusalem said they “have decided to remain and continue to care for all those who will be in the compounds.”

Israel has only doubled down on its plans to seize Gaza City with an Israeli military spokesperson insisting on Wednesday that "evacuating Gaza City is inevitable” and publishing a new map showing areas in central and southern Gaza that he claimed were empty for Palestinians to displace to “before the next phase of the war.”

“It’s been ten days now, and every day the Israelis keep pressing. Jabalia town and Jabalia Al-Nazla have been completely destroyed,” Mohammed Abu Al-Saeed told Drop Site. “There’s no house left, no stone, no street, nothing. Just a while ago, we were shocked when the tank and bulldozer reached Saftawi roundabout and started operating. When people saw that scene, they fled in a massive and terrifying way.” He added, “Even if we wanted to evacuate, we wouldn’t know where to go. There is absolutely no safe place in the Gaza Strip…Young people are dying in the streets. Women are dying in the streets. We’ve become a displaced people.”

For many families, they simply cannot or will not displace to the south. With massive fuel shortages, the cost of getting a car from the north to the south can top 2,000 shekels (about $600) and many are unable to make the arduous journey to areas in central and southern Gaza that are nevertheless repeatedly attacked by Israel. As Palestinians in Gaza City are driven further west toward the sea by the incoming Israeli assault, the city’s coastline has been transformed into a mass tent encampment.

“We simply can’t go to the south, and the reason is clear: lack of money. We don’t have the basics of life necessary to move to the south. We don’t have access to jeeps or cars to transport us or our belongings. Also, there isn’t enough food,” Hamed Hleiwa, a Palestinian man from Gaza City, told Drop Site, near the tent where he was living with his children. “The bigger issue is that the south, where Israel tells us to go—specifically Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis—there’s no space there. There are no available areas. It’s already overcrowded. It’s packed with people from Rafah, packed with people from Khan Younis, and packed with people from the north who haven’t returned to northern Gaza yet.”

“Displacement requires essentials: food, money and transportation. So even if I’m going to die here, I won’t leave,” Hleiwa said in reference to Gaza City. “I would leave, but I can’t.”

Entire UN Security Council Except US Says Gaza Famine ‘Man-Made’ as 10 More People Starve to Death

While acknowledging that "hunger is a real issue in Gaza," the US ambassador to the UN repeated a debunked claim that the world's leading authority on starvation lowered its standards to declare a famine.

by Brett Wilkins | Aug 27, 2025

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2025/08/27/entire-un-security-council-except-us-says-gaza-famine-man-made-as-10-more-people-starve-to-death/

Every member nation of the United Nations Security Council except the United States on Wednesday affirmed that Israel’s engineered famine in Gaza is “man-made” as 10 more Palestinians died of starvation amid what UN experts warned is a worsening crisis.

Fourteen of the 15 Security Council members issued a joint statement calling for an immediate Gaza ceasefire, release of all remaining hostages held by Hamas, and lifting of all Israeli restrictions on aid delivery into the embattled strip, where hundreds of Palestinians have died from starvation and hundreds of thousands more are starving.

“Famine in Gaza must be stopped immediately,” they said. “Time is of the essence. The humanitarian emergency must be addressed without delay and Israel must reverse course.”

“We express our profound alarm and distress at the IPC data on Gaza, published last Friday. It clearly and unequivocally confirms famine,” the statement said, referring to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification’s declaration of Phase 5, or a famine “catastrophe,” in the strip.

“We trust the IPC’s work and methodology,” the 14 countries declared. “This is the first time famine has been officially confirmed in the Middle East region. Every day, more persons are dying as a result of malnutrition, many of them children.”

“This is a man-made crisis,” the statement stresses. “The use of starvation as a weapon of war is clearly prohibited under international humanitarian law.”

Israel, which is facing a genocide case at the UN’s International Court of Justice, denies the existence of famine in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are wanted by the International Court of Justice for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder and forced starvation.

The 14 countries issuing the joint statement are: Algeria, China, Denmark, France, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Somalia, and the United Kingdom.

While acknowledging that “hunger is a real issue in Gaza and that there are significant humanitarian needs which must be met,” US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea rejected the resolution and the IPC’s findings.

“We can only solve problems with credibility and integrity,” Shea told the Security Council. “Unfortunately, the recent report from the IPC doesn’t pass the test on either.”

Shea also repeated the debunked claim that the IPC’s “normal standards were changed for [the IPC famine] declaration.”

The Security Council’s affirmation that the Gaza famine is man-made mirrors the findings of food experts who have accused Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass starvation in the strip.

The UN Palestinian Rights Bureau and UN humanitarian officials also warned Wednesday that the famine in Gaza is “only getting worse.”

“Over half a million people currently face starvation, destitution, and death,” the humanitarian experts said. “By the end of September, that number could exceed 640,000.”

“Failure to act now will have irreversible consequences,” they added.

Wednesday’s UN actions came as Israel intensified Operation Gideon’s Chariots 2, the campaign to conquer, occupy, and ethnically cleanse around 1 million Palestinians from Gaza, possibly into a reportedly proposed concentration camp that would be built over the ruins of the southern city of Rafah.

The Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) on Wednesday reported 10 more Palestinian deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” over the past 24 hours, including two children, bringing the number of famine victims to at least 313, 119 of them children.

All told, Israel’s 691-day assault and siege on Gaza has left at least 230,000 Palestinians dead, maimed, or missing, according to the GHM.

Poll: 60% of Americans Oppose Additional Military Aid to Israel, 50% Believe Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza

Quinnipiac University says it marks the highest level of opposition to military aid to Israel since it first asked the question in 2023

by Dave DeCamp | August 27, 2025

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/08/27/poll-60-of-americans-oppose-additional-military-aid-to-israel-50-believe-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza/

Most Americans oppose additional US military aid to Israel, and half say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.

The poll asked registered US voters if they “support or oppose the United States sending more military aid to Israel for their efforts in the war with Hamas,” and 60% said they oppose, while just 32% said they supported additional military aid.

“This is the highest level of opposition and lowest level of support for the United States sending more military aid to Israel since Quinnipiac University first asked this question of registered voters on November 2, 2023, in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023,” Quinnipiac said in a press release on the poll.

There was a partisan divide on the question, with the majority of Republicans (56%) supporting sending more military aid to Israel, and just 18% of Democrats and 27% of Independents support the idea.

The poll found that 50% of respondents, including 77% of Democrats, 51% of Independents, and 20% of Republicans, believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Just 35% said they did not believe Israel was committing genocide, and 15% said they didn’t know.

The poll also found that 37% of American voters are more sympathetic to the Palestinians than the Israelis, while 36% said their sympathies lie more with the Israelis, findings that align with a University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll, the first poll to find more US sympathy for Palestinians than Israelis.

The Quinnipiac poll also asked if Americans thought the US was too supportive of Israel. It found that 40% of respondents said that the US is “too supportive” of Israel, while 42% said the US support was “just right.”

Top Senate Dem Says Gaza Famine is a 'Shameful Black Mark on Humanity,' Admits Party Failed to Act

"We should have done more," said Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "Everybody should have said more sooner."

Stephen Prager

Aug 25, 2025

https://www.commondreams.org/news/shaheen-gaza-starvation

The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday that Congress had failed to act to prevent starvation in Gaza, which she acknowledged was the fault of Israel's blockade on aid entering the strip.

On Friday, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared that an "entirely man-made" famine is taking place in Gaza—marking just the fifth time the notoriously cautious organization has declared a famine since it was established in 2004.

In reaction to this news, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) issued her most forceful condemnation of Israel's actions in an interview on CBS's Face the Nation, describing it as "a shameful black mark on humanity that the world has allowed this to happen and that Israel is allowing this to happen."

Shaheen, who was calling in from Amman, Jordan, after visiting the country's Humanitarian Assistance Program, said, "They are trying to get 150 trucks a day into Israel."

"Israel," the senator said, "has prevented those trucks from going in in a way that would provide the nutrition that Gazans need to prevent starvation."

According to the IPC report, a quarter of all Palestinians in Gaza–more than 500,000 people–are starving, with that number expected to rise to more than 640,000 by the end of September.

Rebuking claims from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office that famine designation was an antisemitic "blood libel," Shaheen said, "The reality is that we have people dying because they are systematically being starved to death because Israel is refusing to allow in the humanitarian aid that people need to keep alive."

"Not only that," she said, "they've already started planning another incursion into Gaza in ways that are going to kill more people."

"This is not acceptable," she said. "The world needs to speak out."

The world, notably, has been speaking out against Israel's conduct in Gaza for well over a year as evidence mounted of its leaders' genocidal intent.

South Africa accused Israel of genocide in January 2024, citing statements by numerous top Israeli officials who expressed the goal of wiping out or displacing the people of Gaza entirely, often through the policy of intentional starvation.

The IPC, meanwhile, warned as early as December 2023 that Gaza faced a "very high risk of famine" unless access to humanitarian aid was improved immediately.

Shaheen, who has since said she will not seek reelection in 2026, was among the first wave of Democrats to publicly break with the mainstream party line on Gaza, saying that then-President Joe Biden was "too slow in pushing Netanyahu to come to a ceasefire," and voting to block weapons shipments to Israel. However, she did not voice these criticisms until December 2024, after Donald Trump had already been reelected.

It took until late last month—when starvation had become so widespread that one in five children in Gaza City faced malnutrition—for the majority of Senate Democrats to finally back a resolution to block more arms to Israel.

"We should be doing more, and we should have done more. Absolutely," Shaheen said Sunday. "Everybody should have said more sooner."

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS DECEIVING ITSELF ABOUT DRUG TRAFFICKING

Yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated at a press conference in Brooklyn, New York, after Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada pleaded guilty to the charges against him before Judge Brian Cogan.

Attorney General Bondi practically decreed the end of the Sinaloa cartel and pointed out that Zambada had flooded the United States with drugs for decades (Zambada himself told Judge Cogan that he had been doing so since 1980), killing thousands of Americans. He also murdered numerous rivals in the drug trafficking business and bribed Mexican authorities, both public officials and representatives of law enforcement agencies.

According to Bondi, Zambada's admission of his crimes and his life imprisonment is a major triumph for the Donald Trump administration, demonstrating their determination to put an end to drug cartels, which she referred to as "foreign terrorist organizations."

Only when specifically asked by a reporter did Bondi acknowledge that there had been assistance from the Mexican government; but in general, her speech focused on highlighting the enormous damage Zambada had done to the United States and the significant achievement of admitting his crimes to Judge Cogan, for which he will be sentenced to life in prison.

We have to ask ourselves what the administrations of eight US presidents (Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, Trump, and Biden) were doing for 44 years (1980 to 2024), given that a farmer, barely out of primary school, was able to send up to 1.5 million kilos of cocaine to the United States, establish a drug distribution network throughout the country, and escape being caught for almost half a century by any US security or intelligence agencies.

What were US federal, state, and local authorities doing while Zambada and his associates flooded the country with drugs, causing the overdose deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans and leaving 35 million US citizens still addicted to drugs to this day?

Apparently, they did little, if anything, to prevent it. It will be said that the Sinaloa cartel and other Mexican drug cartels have grown thanks to the aid, protection, and alliance they have received from successive Mexican governments (at the federal, state, and municipal levels). And that is true.

But how can we explain why the world's leading power has succumbed to a criminal organization from an underdeveloped country, even though that organization was supported by the Mexican government?

The explanation has several aspects.

First, the United States authorities were negligent, and/or complicit with the Sinaloa cartel, and other Mexican, Colombian, and other cartels, in the distribution and production of drugs within the United States.

It is impossible that an operation of such magnitude, would have been carried out for decades, without the knowledge, consent, and assistance of numerous United States authorities.

Otherwise, we would be accepting that a group of peasants, illiterate criminals, and corrupt politicians from an underdeveloped country have overtaken, controlled, and mocked the entire political, legal, and security structure of the world's leading power.

This is not the case. Drug trafficking remains a big business in the United States because many sectors of that country want it to be.

Banks that launder dirty money; authorities that receive juicy bribes; police officers at various levels who supplement their salaries with drug money; and millions of consumers who are unwilling to stop using drugs, for various reasons (health issues; psychological problems like PTSD; loneliness; alienation; lifestyle, etc.).

Furthermore, the US government uses the issue of drug trafficking to maintain pressure and blackmail on the corrupt Latin American political classes; and it's always better to blame the "others" for domestic ills. For an administration like Trump's, blaming the world for the US's problems is politically and electorally profitable.

Trump, Bondi, Rubio, and the entire Trump administration may decree the end of the Sinaloa Cartel and of drug trafficking (surely the sons of "El Chapo" Guzmán, who are still at large, and of "El Mayo" Zambada, who are vying for control of the cartel, must have smiled when they heard that); they may bomb Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, etc., and hope that this will put an end "once and for all" to the drug cartels; they may declare a "definitive" victory against these "foreign terrorist organizations"; but none of this will be true as long as authorities in Mexico, the United States and other countries, businessmen, and banks benefit economically from such activity; and above all, as long as millions of people around the world remain addicted to drugs, this will continue to create a market that must be supplied every day.

The Fake Charge of ‘Anti-Semitism’ Is Losing Its Sting

by James Rushmore | Jul 11, 2025

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-fake-charge-of-anti-semitism-is-losing-its-sting/

In a viral interview in May, Piers Morgan spoke with Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom. In a highly revealing exchange, Morgan asked Hotovely if she knew how many children Israel had killed over the course of its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip:

Morgan: “Do you know how many Hamas terrorists you’ve killed and how many children you’ve killed? Do you know those two numbers?”

Hotovely: “I know the numbers that came from the IDF. I know the numbers that came from a very, very established think tank…We killed 30,000 terrorists in phase one of the war. Since the war is back, I don’t have the numbers, but let me tell you one thing. We never target civilians, so this question is irrelevant.”

Morgan: “How many children have you killed?”

Hotevely: “Piers, Israel is not killing children. Israel is not killing children. Hamas is using them as human shields.”

Morgan: Israel is killing children every single day. Why pretend otherwise?”

Hotevely: “Piers, this is a blood libel you’re putting on Israel.”

Let’s go ahead and assume, for the sake of argument, that Hotovely is telling the truth. Even if every single child killed in Gaza had been used as a human shield, would that absolve Israel of responsibility for killing them? Of course not.

Back in March 2024, a former ranking IDF officer told Haaretz that the Israeli military was engaged in a form of combat that was “unusually wasteful.” He accused the IDF of “attacking innumerable targets, without asking whether it’s worth attacking them,” using artillery “in places where it’s not really obligatory,” and “demolishing everything before entering.” What’s more, the officer argued that, by causing less destruction, ground forces would have ended up spending less time in Gaza, thereby exposing themselves to fewer casualties.

Israel is a developed country with a high-tech weapons industry. In the year following the October 7 attack, it received $17.9 billion in security assistance from the United States. Israel has the ability to minimize civilian casualties; it chooses not to. In the minds of Israeli officials, the civilian population of Gaza is expendable. As a result, it’s justifiable to kill tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, especially when their lives are deemed less valuable than those of IDF service members. According to people like Tzipi Hotovely, the blame for such casualties always rests with Hamas, even when it’s Israel that carries out the death blow. And anybody who disagrees is motivated by anti-semitism.

By insisting that Israel is driven exclusively by a sense of benevolence, she can whitewash her government’s annihilation of the Gaza Strip. But the numbers don’t lie. According to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, over 53,655 Palestinians have been killed since the war began. Of that number, 15,613 have been children. Is it anti-semitic to notice?

According to Hotovely, it is. By claiming that Morgan invoked the blood libel, she thinks she can obscure the awful truth and deny the destructive consequences of her preferred policies. Like all demagogues, she pins the blame on others while accusing her critics of rank bigotry and impure motives. Unfortunately for Hotovely, even Piers Morgan, who has tried to argue that intentionally killing civilians isn’t inherently evil, is wise to her act.

The claim that anti-semitism is ubiquitous has itself become a canard. Much in the same way that the Great Awokening sowed the seeds of its own destruction, Israel supporters have overplayed their hand. The anti-semitism card has lost its sting, and fewer and fewer members of the media class are willing to accept its premises.

Contrast Hotovely’s statements with Congressman Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) unequivocal rejection of state violence against civilians.

Massie is no stranger to spurious accusations of anti-semitism. Back in 2023, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demanded that Massie take down a meme he characterized as anti-semitic. Earlier this year, the Israel lobby declared preemptive war on his since-abandoned Senate ambitions. And Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Massie are no doubt motivated in part by the former’s subservience to AIPAC and pro-Israel donors like Miriam Adelson.

Massie’s willingness to continue opposing U.S. backing for Israel’s actions signify an undeniable sea change. At no other time have baseless allegations of anti-semitism been less effective. The more such accusations annoy and alienate people, the harder it will become for Israel to deny the fact that it is responsible for the mass murder of thousands of children.