ISRAEL stood accused yesterday of deliberately blocking investigators trying to probe alleged war crimes during its 43-day assault on the embattled Gaza Strip.
NGOs Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the authorities in Tel Aviv for barring researchers from the seven by 31-mile sliver of land where 1.8 million people have been trapped in a weeks-long reign of terror.
HRW said it had officially been refused because it wasn’t on a registered list of organisations allowed in.
Washington and its Western allies decry human rights abuses while arming and shielding Israel, turning contradiction into policy, argues RAMZY BAROUD
ANN CZERNIK looks back over the last two years of carnage that began with the unprecedented October 7 operation and considers the rhetoric from both sides in light of the massacre carried out by Israel that has united the world in horror


