Fact Sheet: What’s happened in Syria and how will it affect the region?
December 9, 2024 | AIJAC staff
Establishing control over the entirety of Syria will be very difficult for the country’s new rulers. Over and above the numerous jihadi groups, many ethnic and religious minorities armed themselves during the civil war to protect their villages and local autonomy (during the height of the Syrian civil war, there were over 1,500 armed groups in Syria).
Fact Sheet: Recent Israeli legislation on UNRWA
October 31, 2024 | AIJAC staff
Commentary about the new Israeli legislation ‘banning UNRWA’ has mischaracterised the scope of the laws, the idea that UNRWA is irreplaceable, and the Israeli concerns about UNRWA. This factsheet provides some corrective information.
Fact Sheet: The current Israel-Hezbollah conflict
October 1, 2024 | AIJAC staff
On Oct. 1, the IDF announced it had begun “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
Israel’s ground incursion into Lebanon: What we currently know
October 1, 2024 | AIJAC staff
On Sept. 30, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Israeli special forces have been carrying out small, targeted raids into southern Lebanon, gathering intelligence and probing ahead of a possible broader ground incursion that could come as soon as this week.”
Fact Sheet: The ICJ and ICC
May 27, 2024 | Greg Rose
The ICJ can provide interim measures. It has no criminal jurisdiction and no jurisdiction over individuals. The ICJ is paid for as part of contributions to the UN by member states… The ICC has criminal jurisdiction over individuals but not jurisdiction over sovereign states. It is a UN satellite agency under a treaty binding on its parties. It is paid for by parties to its Rome Statute.
Fact Sheet: Israel’s second anti-terror raid at Shifa Hospital
April 3, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
Beginning on March 18, the IDF and other security agencies raided the Shifa Hospital compound in Gaza City for the second time in the war – the first time was back in November – based on intelligence that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists had regrouped and massed themselves in and around the compound.
Fact Sheet: South Africa, Hamas, and the ICJ “genocide” case against Israel
February 6, 2024 | AIJAC staff
This fact sheet brings together information about South Africa and the African National Congress (ANC) which suggests that South Africa today is no longer the country of Nelson Mandela, and the ICJ case against Israel has very little to do with kinship for the “oppressed”, and more to do with Pretoria’s increasing alignment with radical actors, including Hamas – as well as, possibly, cynical self-interest.
Facts Sheet: “I went through hell” – What the released hostages say about their captivity
December 8, 2023 | Alana Schetzer, Aviva Winton
Returning hostages were forced to smile, shake hands with their captors and thank them publicly as part of Hamas’ propaganda. However, in one video a Hamas fighter is seen ordering captives to keep waving – and there are also reports that hostages were given tranquilisers prior to their release to make them appear happy.
Fact Sheet: Gaza’s hospitals and ambulances – and Hamas’ exploitation of them
November 14, 2023 | AIJAC
Below is a current update on the reality of the situation with respect to the hospitals of Gaza – including the well-documented evidence and history of Hamas’ use of hospitals and ambulances for terrorist purposes. These practices remove their protected status under International Humanitarian Law, allowing the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to strike these targets, though of course while continuing to seek to minimise harm to civilians within the laws of “proportionality” and while adhering to other relevant rules.
Fact Sheet: “House and Garden” – An IDF operation targeting terror infrastructure in Jenin
July 4, 2023 | Ahron Shapiro
In the early morning hours of July 3, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces conducted a “Brigade-level raid” including over 1,000 soldiers and border police, into the Palestinian town of Jenin, focusing primarily on the UNRWA refugee camp in the area (also named Jenin).
