This report employs a combination of forensic and open-source analysis to trace the weapons, manufacturers and supply chains involved in Israel’s military campaign in Gaza (October 2023 – September 2025), arguing that civilian harm in the strip was the foreseeable consequence of deploying explosive weapons at scale in densely populated urban areas.

South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung has reignited scrutiny of Israeli military conduct by highlighting alleged abuses, with Action on Armed Violence arguing the incident reflects a longstanding pattern of weak accountability in Israeli investigations.

In a BBC News interview, AOAV’s Executive Director Iain Overton detailed that of 52 Israeli military investigations into alleged war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank since October 2023, almost all ended without accountability, highlighting deep flaws in Israel’s system of self-investigation.

Amid mounting investor concerns over alleged human rights abuses and a mass exodus of senior staff, Israeli surveillance firm Corsight AI—whose facial recognition technology was embedded in UK police systems—now faces a deepening financial and reputational crisis, prompting renewed calls for public accountability from clients like Essex Police.

AOAV has grave concern over the reported killing of fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers by Israeli forces on 23 March in Rafah City’s Tel al-Sultan district, in southern Gaza. The victims, including workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS), civil defence teams, and at least one UN employee, were allegedly shot and buried in a mass grave while attempting to rescue earlier casualties.

Shireen, a visually impaired Gazan activist, recounts her neighbour’s harrowing experience of displacement and survival in an UNRWA school amid the dire conditions following intense conflict in the region.