Fact Sheet: Gaza’s death toll
May 13, 2025 | AIJAC staff
Different methodologies are used by different actors in different wars, with some governments, regimes and activists deliberately overestimating or underestimating the death toll for their own political purposes. Every civilian who dies in war is a tragedy. While this fact sheet discusses numbers, facts and statistics, we remember that these are real people and mourn their very real suffering.
Fact Sheet: Aid into Gaza
May 12, 2025 | AIJAC staff
Hamas has stolen much of the aid that has gone into Gaza during the war, both for its own purposes, and to profit from on-selling the aid. Because of this, and because Gaza received and stockpiled substantial deliveries of aid during the January to February 2025 ceasefire, Israel has prevented aid entering Gaza since March 2. Israel has recently revealed (and is now implementing) a plan to provide aid to civilians directly, in a way that is designed to prevent Hamas from stealing the aid.
Fact Sheet: Recently released hostages reveal stories of horrific mistreatment
March 4, 2025 | Alana Schetzer
Many details of what the hostages went through are yet to be revealed; families have reported that their loved ones are not ready to talk, some are mentally unresponsive, plus there remain concerns for the safety of the remaining hostages who are still alive in Gaza if certain details are disclosed publicly.
Fact Sheet: The ceasefire for hostages deal just reached between Israel and Hamas
January 16, 2025 | AIJAC staff
Overview On January 15 2025, many hours after Israeli approval, the terror group Hamas finally agreed to a brokered deal,…
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.
