A joint statement issued by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists at a press conference in Jerusalem. Read more about Joint Statement AI, HRW, ICJ 

Human Rights Watch today strongly criticized the Israeli Knesset’s discriminatory allocation of national child allowances. The latest economic plan, passed Wednesday night, cuts by 24 percent allowances for children whose parents have not served in the army. Read more about Israel: Cuts in Child Allowance Discriminate Against Palestinian Arab Children 

Today’s Israel Defense Forces air strike on a crowded Gaza apartment building demonstrated a clear failure to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian casualties, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch condemned the attack as a violation of international humanitarian law. Read more about Israeli Airstrike on Crowded Civilian Area Condemned