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Two models stand on a "barbed-wire beach" outside the offices of TripAdvisor in Soho Square, central London, as part of an Amnesty International campaign calling on the firm and other travel companies to stop listing rooms and activities in Israeli settlements in the Palestinian Territories. (Photo by Kirsty O'Connor/PA Images via Getty Images)

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TripAdvisor Staff Urged to Speak Out Against Firm’s Role in Sustaining Illegal Israeli Settlements

Amnesty International has called on TripAdvisor employees to use their power to demand that their company stops profiting from war…

July 9, 2019

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Catastrophic failure as civilians ravaged by war violations 70 years after Geneva Conventions

The UN Security Council must mark the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions this year by ending its catastrophic failure to…

May 22, 2019

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Israel’s refusal to grant Palestinian refugees right to return has fuelled seven decades of suffering

Israel’s failure to respect the right to return for Palestinians who were forced to flee their homes in 1948 is…

May 14, 2019

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Israel: Amnesty International engages in legal action to stop NSO Group’s web of surveillance

Amnesty International is supporting a legal action to take the Israeli Ministry of Defence (MoD) to court, to demand that…

May 12, 2019

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Human rights in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of 2018

The international community’s chilling complacency towards wide-scale human rights violations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has emboldened…

February 26, 2019

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Israel/OPT: Tourism companies driving settlement expansion, profiting from war crimes

Online booking giants Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor are fueling human rights violations against Palestinians by listing hundreds of rooms…

January 30, 2019

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Israel: ‘Rogue’ NSO Group must have licence revoked over controversial surveillance software

Amnesty International is taking legal advice in order to revoke the export licence of Israel-based NSO Group, after it was…

November 28, 2018

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Gaza: Civilian lives must be spared as fighting between Israel and Palestinian armed groups escalates

Responding to the escalation of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian armed groups in Gaza overnight -  the most serious…

November 13, 2018

Palestinian protestors carrying their national flag burn tyres during demonstration on the beach near the maritime border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 15, 2018. - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to inflict "very strong blows" on Hamas after fresh violence along the border with the Gaza Strip controlled by the Islamist group. (Photo by Said KHATIB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)

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Gaza: Fears of further bloodshed as Israel adopts ‘zero tolerance’ policy

Fears of escalating bloodshed are rising ahead of planned protests in Gaza later today after Israeli authorities announced a “zero…

October 19, 2018

General view of the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank as Israeli police claimed the village closed military area on July 5, 2018. - Khan al-Ahmar, which Israeli authorities say was illegally constructed and the supreme court in May rejected a final appeal against its demolition, is located near several Israeli settlements along a road leading to the Dead Sea. Activists are concerned continued Israeli settlement construction in the area could effectively divide the northern and southern West Bank. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP) (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

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Israeli court approves a war crime by ruling in favor of demolishing the entire village of Khan al-Ahmar

Responding to the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision, the second one in less than two months, to approve the demolition of…

September 5, 2018

General view of the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank as Israeli police claimed the village closed military area on July 5, 2018. - Khan al-Ahmar, which Israeli authorities say was illegally constructed and the supreme court in May rejected a final appeal against its demolition, is located near several Israeli settlements along a road leading to the Dead Sea. Activists are concerned continued Israeli settlement construction in the area could effectively divide the northern and southern West Bank. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP) (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

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Israel’s demolition of Khan al-Ahmar and transfer of its inhabitants are war crimes

Israel’s forcible transfer of Palestinians from their homes and settling of Israeli civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories violate the…

July 5, 2018

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Israel/OPT: Authorities must refrain from using excessive force in response to Palestine Land Day protests

Ahead of tomorrow’s planned protests marking Palestine Land Day, and amid reports that Israeli forces have warned that they will…

March 29, 2018