Lebanon’s Council of Ministers has issued a decision instructing the MFA to file a declaration w/the Registrar of the ICC, accepting the court’s jurisdiction to investigate & prosecute crimes within the court’s jurisdiction committed in Lebanon since 10/7 lebanon24.com/news/lebanon/1… @HRW documented two Israeli strikes in Lebanon on October 13, 2023, that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdullah and injured six others and concluded that the attack was apparently deliberate and thus a war crime. hrw.org/news/2023/12/0…

#Ukraine & #Russia are leading exporters of agricultural products to many MENA countries and crisis related disruptions are already undermining access to sufficient and adequate food due to increases in the price of bread and other basic foods hrw.org/news/2022/03/2… Ukraine is among the world’s leading exporters of sunflower oil, rapeseed & barley, corn, wheat, and poultry. It banned exports of grain & other food products to prevent a domestic crisis + farmers are fleeing the fighting & the conflict is destroying infrastructure and equipment

In late November, after receiving an iMessage alert from Apple, I learned that #NSO’s #Pegasus spyware was used to infect my phone 5 times between April and August 2021. #NSO says it only sells #Pegasus to governments to stop criminals and terrorists, but the attacks against me and countless other activists and journalists are proof that that isn’t true. hrw.org/news/2022/01/2…