The UK government has received advice that Israel is breaking international law in its assault on Gaza, so has an obligation to stop supplying it with arms.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
Hunger: aid agencies are predicting a famine in Gaza if aid isn’t allowed to reach more than a million displaced Palestinians as a matter of ugency.
EPA-EFE/Haitham Imad
Helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression is not a violation of international law – but Russia might interpret it as escalation.
Judges arrive for the hearing of the genocide case against Israel brought by South Africa, at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, January 2024.
EPA-EFE/Remko de Waal
The crime of genocide was first established in law by a Polish Jew who had fled the Nazis and wanted to hold them to account for the Holocaust.
Display monitors show the result of voting at the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 12, 2023, in favour of a resolution calling on Israel to uphold legal and humanitarian obligations in its war with Hamas.
(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
An expert on the laws of war argues that the burden is now on Israel to show that the heavy death toll in Gaza is proportionate to the military advantage gained.
The remains of a rocket that carried cluster munitions found in a Ukrainian field.
Alice Martins/For The Washington Post via Getty Images
The US administration said that it had received ‘written assurances’ from Ukraine that it would use cluster bombs carefully. Nonetheless, the munition will provide an additional risk to civilians.
A wounded pregnant woman is evacuated from Mariupol Maternity Hospital No.3 in March 2022.
AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka
The deportation of children during war goes to the heart of important and far-reaching human rights conventions. But bringing perpetrators to justice will be a long and complex process.
Crime scene? Vladimir Putin visits Mariupol, which Russia captured in May 2022 after the deaths of thousands, including many civilians.
EPA-EFE/Russian presidential press service
The list of crimes for which Putin is considered complicit is long. The question is whether he can be held accountable.
Ukrainian troops salute the coffins of four Ukrainian fighters of the sabotage group Bratstvo (Brotherhood) who died during a mission in Bryansk Oblast in Russia.
EPA-EFE/Oleg Petrasuk