The BBC called 7 October an atrocity 30 times in its own words. In 4,858 pages, it never once said it about Israel.

The reality of how BBC News uses one word: since 7 October 2023, the BBC has called the attack on Israel that day an atrocity, in its own words, 30 times.

Over the same three years of Israel's genocide in Gaza, the Israeli occupation has killed 74,392 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health. In the 4,858 BBC pages we read, the BBC did not once call anything Israel did there an atrocity in its own words.

Plenty of people said it about Gaza. The UN's human rights chief warned of "atrocity crimes". Human Rights Watch, Oxfam and the head of the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees called what Israel was doing atrocities. The BBC reported people calling Israel's attacks on Gaza atrocities 76 times, and every time the word sat inside quote marks or in a sentence saying who had said it.

That is a double standard, and it is dangerous. A newsroom that states one side's killing as an atrocity in its own voice, and leaves the other side's to quotes, tells its readers that one is a fact and the other is an opinion. That only benefits Israel, by turning the documented killing of Palestinians into a claim somebody made.

What we found:

30 times the BBC called the 7 October attack an atrocity in its own words, in headlines, standfirsts, live pages and reports.
0 times it used the word in its own words for anything Israel did, in Gaza, Lebanon or Iran.
76 times it quoted or paraphrased somebody else calling Israel's attacks on Gaza an atrocity.
5 times its complaints team used the word for 7 October while defending the BBC's coverage, and 0 times for Israel.
11 more times the BBC used the word for 7 October with a hedge ("unverified", "unconfirmed reports") or to describe someone else's view. We left all 11 out of the 30.

Whose words: every use of atrocity, by subject

Each use counted once, however many BBC pages repeated it. 4,858 BBC News pages, 7 October 2023 to 15 October 2026.

See the figures

Subject	BBC's own words	BBC's own words, hedged	BBC's words for someone's view	Paraphrase of a speaker	Inside a quote
7 October	30	3	8	19	79
Israel in Gaza	0	0	0	3	73

Every use of the word, one square each

Tap or click any square to read the words around it.

What the BBC wrote about 7 October

These are the BBC's own sentences. No quote marks, no "Israel says".

BBC News headline of 20 October 2023: Israeli community frozen as Hamas atrocities continue to emerge — BBC News, 20 October 2023, captured at 4.38pm on 15 October 2026. The BBC also ran this headline as a link inside at least 11 other BBC articles. Photograph hidden.Source: BBC NewsOriginalArchived copy

“Kibbutz Be'eri was the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Hamas attack in southern Israel last Saturday.”

BBC live page, BBC News, 11 October 2023Read the originalArchived copyStill online

“Hamas is something of a hybrid case. The atrocities committed in their raid into southern Israel on 7 October were gratuitously cruel and violent.”

BBC News analysis, Israel Gaza: The perils of hostage rescue, BBC News, 17 December 2023Read the originalArchived copyStill online

A year later the BBC was still writing it. When Israel killed Yahya Sinwar, the BBC's summary called him "the architect of the 7 October atrocities", and its report said this:

BBC News report of 17 October 2024, How Israel killed Hamas leader Sinwar in a chance encounter, with a paragraph saying Israel destroyed the infrastructure he had used to prosecute the atrocities of 7 October — BBC News, 17 October 2024, captured at 4.41pm on 15 October 2026. Highlighting ours. The paragraphs in between are hidden.Source: BBC NewsOriginalArchived copy

What the BBC wrote about Gaza

When the subject was Israel's attacks on Gaza, the word only ever arrived in someone else's mouth. The BBC put it in quote marks, even in its own headlines.

Three BBC headlines, seven weeks apart

About 7 October

“Israeli community frozen as Hamas atrocities continue to emerge”

BBC News, 20 October 2023Read the original

About Gaza

“Blackout in Gaza could hide 'atrocities' - HRW”

BBC News live page, 28 October 2023Read the original

About Gaza

“UN human rights chief warns of 'atrocity crimes' in Gaza”

BBC News live page, 6 December 2023Read the original

For 7 October the word is the BBC's own. For Gaza it sits in quote marks, with the name of whoever said it.

BBC live page post of 6 December 2023 by Imogen Foulkes, headlined UN human rights chief warns of atrocity crimes in Gaza, with the word in quote marks — BBC News live page, 6 December 2023, page 5 of the stream, captured at 4.43pm on 15 October 2026. Highlighting ours. Other posts hidden.Source: BBC NewsOriginalArchived copy

Sometimes the BBC put quote marks around that one word. On 20 October 2024, after an Israeli strike in northern Gaza killed at least 73 people, the BBC reported that the UN's top humanitarian official had called for these "atrocities" to stop. Israel's claim that the toll was "exaggerated" is in the same report twice, and the BBC's summary of the report leads with it.

BBC News report of 20 October 2024, At least 73 killed in Israeli strike in northern Gaza, with two paragraphs giving Israel's claim that the figures were exaggerated and one where the UN's Joyce Msuya called for these atrocities to stop, the word in quote marks — BBC News, 20 October 2024, captured at 4.39pm on 15 October 2026. Highlighting ours. The paragraphs in between are hidden.Source: BBC NewsOriginalArchived copy

On 13 May 2025 the BBC's international editor, Jeremy Bowen, interviewed Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees. Lazzarini told him: "We have under our watch let a massive atrocity unfold." In the same paragraph, in his own words, Bowen called it "this devastating war".

BBC News report of 13 May 2025 by Jeremy Bowen in which Philippe Lazzarini says we have under our watch let a massive atrocity unfold — BBC News, 13 May 2025, captured at 4.41pm on 15 October 2026. Highlighting ours. The paragraphs in between are hidden.Source: BBC NewsOriginalArchived copy

Side by side, in the BBC's own words

Sometimes the double standard sits inside one BBC sentence. On 15 October 2023 the BBC's live page reported:

“The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said earlier that 2,450 people have been killed in Israel's bombing campaign against the territory, which was launched in the aftermath of last week's atrocities.”

BBC News live page, 15 October 2023, 15:41Read the originalArchived copyStill online

Notice the different standards. The 2,450 Palestinians Israel had killed were a figure from the "Hamas-run health ministry". The killing of Israelis a week earlier was, in the BBC's own words, "last week's atrocities".

BBC live page post of 15 October 2023 headlined More than 1,400 killed in attacks, Israel says, with the sentence calling the 7 October attack last week's atrocities — BBC News live page, 15 October 2023, page 3 of the stream, captured at 4.43pm on 15 October 2026. Highlighting ours. Other posts hidden.Source: BBC NewsOriginalArchived copy

The next day the BBC's Middle East correspondent, Yolande Knell, wrote this about her colleagues:

“Some have had those they know or love caught up in the atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel. While under siege and intense bombardment in Gaza, my colleagues are struggling to find water and food for their families.”

Yolande Knell, BBC Middle East correspondent, BBC News live page, 16 October 2023Read the originalArchived copyStill online

In two sentences, Hamas is named as committing atrocities and Israel is not named at all. Gaza is simply "under siege and intense bombardment", as if nobody was doing it.

BBC live page post of 16 October 2023 by Yolande Knell, with the sentence about atrocities committed by Hamas and siege and bombardment in Gaza — BBC News live page, 16 October 2023, captured at 4.44pm on 15 October 2026. Highlighting ours. Her photograph and other posts hidden.Source: BBC NewsOriginalArchived copy

The BBC's own standard

On 11 October 2023, four days after the attack, the BBC's world affairs editor, John Simpson, explained why the BBC would not call Hamas "terrorists". In the same piece he set the BBC's test for the word atrocity:

“It's perfectly reasonable to call the incidents that have occurred "atrocities", because that's exactly what they are.”

John Simpson, BBC World Affairs editor, BBC News, 11 October 2023Read the originalArchived copyStill online

BBC News article of 11 October 2023, Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants terrorists, by John Simpson, with two paragraphs using the word atrocities — BBC News, 11 October 2023, captured at 4.38pm on 15 October 2026. Highlighting ours. The paragraphs in between are hidden.Source: BBC NewsOriginalArchived copy

That is the BBC's own test: when the evidence shows an atrocity, say so. The BBC applied it to Hamas within four days. In three years and 4,858 pages, it did not apply it to Israel once.

The evidence was there. The UN's human rights chief, Volker Türk, warned of "atrocity crimes" in Gaza in December 2023, February 2024, October 2024 and August 2025, and the BBC reported each of those warnings. In September 2025 the UN Commission of Inquiry found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. The BBC kept the word in other people's mouths.

What the BBC tells people who complain

The same split runs through the BBC's answer to the people who complained about its coverage. On 16 October 2023 it published this response:

The BBC's response to complaints, 16 October 2023

About Israelis

“We have reported on the atrocities committed by Hamas in their assault on Israel and have heard many accounts from survivors of these attacks and family members of the victims, reflecting the trauma they are suffering.”

BBC complaint response, 16 October 2023Read the original

About Palestinians

“On the ground in Gaza our teams have reported on the rising death toll from Israeli air strikes and the unfolding humanitarian crisis, as rockets destroy buildings, power and water supplies are cut and thousands try to move out of the way of danger.”

BBC complaint response, 16 October 2023Read the original

Earlier in the same response, the BBC sums up the coverage as "the atrocities committed by Hamas, and the suffering in Gaza".

The BBC's published complaint response of 16 October 2023 on its Israel and Gaza coverage, under the heading Our response — The BBC's published complaint response on its Israel and Gaza coverage, 16 October 2023, captured at 4.44pm on 15 October 2026. The summary of the complaint and the later paragraphs are hidden.Source: BBCOriginalArchived copy

Atrocities for Israelis. A death toll and a humanitarian crisis for Palestinians.

BBC News's chief executive, Deborah Turness, made the same split two years later:

“It is almost two years since October 7th when the world witnessed Hamas' atrocities. Since then, a war has been raging in Gaza but international journalists are not allowed in.”

Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News, BBC News, 24 September 2025Read the originalArchived copyStill online

Who else the BBC calls perpetrators of atrocities

The BBC has no trouble using the word in its own voice. It uses it for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, for the Southport murders, for Omagh and for Lockerbie.

2026-02-25
Subject
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces
Where
Headline
What the BBC wrote
UN sanctions paramilitary leaders over Sudan atrocities
Page
BBC
2026-07-01
Subject
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces
Where
Standfirst
What the BBC wrote
The Amnesty report adds to evidence of atrocities in el-Fasher, which the UN says bore the hallmarks of genocide.
Page
BBC
2025-11-29
Subject
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces
Where
Headline
What the BBC wrote
How Trump's pledge to tackle Sudan atrocities could play out
Page
BBC
2025-12-29
Subject
The Southport murders
Where
Standfirst
What the BBC wrote
The BBC looks back on the first phase of the public inquiry into the atrocities of 29 July 2024.
Page
BBC
2025-08-07
Subject
The Omagh bombing
Where
Standfirst
What the BBC wrote
Gareth Conway was 18 when he was among 29 people murdered in the 1998 atrocity.
Page
BBC
2024-05-01
Subject
The Lockerbie bombing
Where
Standfirst
What the BBC wrote
Graeme Little took cash from a donations box at a memorial dedicated to victims of the atrocity.
Page
BBC

Date	Subject	Where	What the BBC wrote	Page
2026-02-25	Sudan's Rapid Support Forces	Headline	UN sanctions paramilitary leaders over Sudan atrocities	BBC
2026-07-01	Sudan's Rapid Support Forces	Standfirst	The Amnesty report adds to evidence of atrocities in el-Fasher, which the UN says bore the hallmarks of genocide.	BBC
2025-11-29	Sudan's Rapid Support Forces	Headline	How Trump's pledge to tackle Sudan atrocities could play out	BBC
2025-12-29	The Southport murders	Standfirst	The BBC looks back on the first phase of the public inquiry into the atrocities of 29 July 2024.	BBC
2025-08-07	The Omagh bombing	Standfirst	Gareth Conway was 18 when he was among 29 people murdered in the 1998 atrocity.	BBC
2024-05-01	The Lockerbie bombing	Standfirst	Graeme Little took cash from a donations box at a memorial dedicated to victims of the atrocity.	BBC

Look at Sudan. The RSF says the scale of its killings in el-Fasher has been exaggerated. The BBC reports the denial, and calls them atrocities in its own words all the same:

BBC News report of 25 February 2026, UN sanctions paramilitary leaders over Sudan atrocities, with a paragraph on atrocities committed in el-Fasher and another giving the RSF's claim that the scale has been exaggerated — BBC News, 25 February 2026, captured at 4.40pm on 15 October 2026. Highlighting ours. The paragraphs in between are hidden.Source: BBC NewsOriginalArchived copy

When Israel said the toll from its strike of 20 October 2024 was exaggerated, the BBC led with the denial and left the word atrocity to the UN. One standard for Sudan's RSF. Another for Israel.

Year by year

Other people called Israel's attacks on Gaza atrocities every year, and the BBC reported them doing it. The BBC never once took the word up itself. The last time we found it using the word in its own voice for 7 October was October 2024.

The BBC's own words against everyone else's, by year

The BBC's own words about Israel in Gaza are zero in every year. We read 995 pages in 2023, 1,670 in 2024, 1,445 in 2025 and 748 in 2026, to 15 October.

See the figures

Year	BBC's own words, 7 October	Others' words about Gaza, quoted by the BBC
2023, from 7 October	23	24
2024	7	23
2025	0	25
2026, to 15 October	0	4

The BBC decided in four days that the 7 October attack was an atrocity. Three years and 74,392 Palestinian lives later, it still leaves the word to everyone else.

How we counted

How we did this

How we counted

We read 4,858 BBC News pages about Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and the region, published between 7 October 2023 and 15 October 2026: 3,857 reports, 270 live pages read in full (23,360 posts, every page of each stream) and 731 video pages. They came from four places: every BBC page in NewsCord's own archive on the subject, every BBC page from the week after 7 October and the anniversary windows that our 7 October media census collected, every Middle East page in the BBC's own archive index from October 2023 until the BBC changed its web addresses in 2024, and a sweep of BBC search for the word beside Gaza, Israel and Hamas.

We found every use of atrocity or atrocities and read each one. A use counts as the BBC's own words only when it is not inside quote marks and not part of a sentence reporting what someone else said, thought or condemned. Where the BBC's word described somebody's view ("Israelis are appalled that the world forgot the atrocities"), we counted it separately, so the 30 is the lowest fair figure. A sentence the BBC repeated on several pages is counted once.

The count covers what the BBC published in writing, not what it broadcast on television or radio. From mid 2024 it is a large sample rather than every page, because no BBC index lists its newer pages by subject. Every use we found is in the table below.

Every use we found

Every use of atrocity or atrocities in the 4,858 BBC pages we read: 262 uses in 260 passages, one row per passage. Sort by any column, or download the full table.

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2023-10-08
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own, hedged
Where
Report
What the BBC published
Other unverified atrocities too graphic to publish were captured on camera, including a motorist being dragged from his car and having his throat slashed, and the bodies of dead civilians and soldiers being defiled.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-09
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
"Our countries will support Israel in its efforts to defend itself and its people against such atrocities," the statement continues, adding: "This is not a moment for any party hostile to Israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage."
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-09
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Caption
What the BBC published
The paper quotes Netanyahu as saying "the atrocities committed by Hamas have not been seen since Isis [Islamic State] atrocities".
Uses
2
Page
Link
2023-10-10
About
7 October
Whose words
Paraphrase
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
He calls Hamas blood-thirsty, saying the events are reminiscent of the worst atrocities committed by Isis, otherwise known as the so-called Islamic State group, and condemns them for "more than 1,000 civilians slaughtered.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-10
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Report
What the BBC published
In another statement issued later on Tuesday, the university's president, Claudine Gay, clarified that the school "condemn[ed] the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas".
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-11
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC complaints team
Where
BBC complaint response
What the BBC published
Our coverage of the unprecedented assault on Israel by Hamas has made clear the nature of the atrocities committed and the impact this has had on civilians.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-11
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
He described the actions of militant group Hamas as “sheer evil” that “in some cases exceeds the worst atrocities of ISIS”.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-11
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
Kibbutz Be'eri was the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Hamas attack in southern Israel last Saturday.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-11
About
7 October
Whose words
Paraphrase
Where
Caption
What the BBC published
The paper says he was backed by the Prince and Princess of Wales, whom it quoted as saying: "The horrors inflicted by Hamas's terrorist attack upon Israel are appalling." The Mail says the use of the word "terrorism" to describe the atrocities "came in...
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-11
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Report
What the BBC published
He said the vigil "expressed simple sorrow and solidarity" after the "terrible atrocities which went beyond the pale".
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-11
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Report
What the BBC published
From Israel: Community frozen as Hamas atrocities emerge
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-11
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Report
What the BBC published
Government ministers, newspaper columnists, ordinary people - they're all asking why the BBC doesn't say the Hamas gunmen who carried out appalling atrocities in southern Israel are terrorists.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-11
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Report
What the BBC published
It's perfectly reasonable to call the incidents that have occurred "atrocities", because that's exactly what they are.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-12
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
During the call, Sunak said "the UK stands side by side with Israel in fighting terror and agreed that Hamas can never again be able to perpetrate atrocities against the Israeli people".
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-12
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
As the fog of war continues to swirl around this new conflict, any walking back or confusion risks aiding those who are trying to sow misinformation and cast doubt on events and atrocities that are verifiably true.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-12
About
7 October
Whose words
Paraphrase
Where
Caption
What the BBC published
The paper says he was backed by the Prince and Princess of Wales, whom it quoted as saying: "The horrors inflicted by Hamas's terrorist attack upon Israel are appalling." The Mail says the use of the word "terrorism" to describe the atrocities "came in...
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-12
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Report
What the BBC published
"Flying the Israeli flag outside the Senedd would send a strong message that we all stand against terrorism and the atrocities that we have seen," he said.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-13
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
“This is an atrocity against civilians... rounding up people, kidnapping some of them, [murdering] many of them in horrific ways,” Rabbi Goldberg said.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-13
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
Israelis are reeling with shock and anger, appalled at details continuing to come out about the atrocities by Hamas gunmen in southern Israel.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-13
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC, someone's view
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
Israel's government has taken the decision to share graphic images of children killed by Hamas, as it emphasises the atrocities committed at the weekend.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-13
About
7 October
Whose words
Paraphrase
Where
Report
What the BBC published
"We do not believe that Russia was involved in any way," Israel's ambassador to Moscow, Alexander Ben Zvi, told the Kommersant newspaper this week, adding that it was "complete nonsense" to suggest there was a Russian connection to the atrocities committed...
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-13
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Report
What the BBC published
With Neta visibly tiring and her nurse despatching herself to retrieve more painkillers, I ask Neta how she thinks the Israeli government should respond to the massacre of her community and the other atrocities.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-13
About
7 October
Whose words
Paraphrase
Where
Standfirst
What the BBC published
My mother would say the atrocities are the result of not striving for peace, he tells Jeremy Bowen.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-13
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own, hedged
Where
Report
What the BBC published
"They are not decapitating babies' heads," Mr DeSantis said, in reference to unconfirmed reports of specific Hamas atrocities on Saturday. "They are not intentionally doing that."
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-14
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
I’ve been speaking to Yotam Kipnis, whose parents and six other family members are missing after the atrocities at kibbutz Be’eri.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-14
About
Both sides
Whose words
Quote
Where
Report
What the BBC published
They said following the "horrific killings and atrocities" on both sides, and the "deep devastation, grief and fear being felt by our communities in our city and beyond" they were "deeply disappointed and alarmed" by Sir Keir's comments.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-15
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC, someone's view
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
Before Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg comes off air, we heard from the panel - starting with former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind who reflects on the scale of the atrocities and where we are now.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-15
About
Israel in Gaza
Whose words
Quote
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
"If they do not cease their atrocities in Gaza, Iran cannot simply remain an observer," Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told Al Jazeera.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-15
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said earlier that 2,450 people have been killed in Israel's bombing campaign against the territory, which was launched in the aftermath of last week's atrocities.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-15
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC, someone's view
Where
Report
What the BBC published
Israel declared a "complete siege" of Gaza on Monday, saying electricity, food, fuel and water would be cut off in response to the Hamas attacks and atrocities.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-15
About
Israel in Gaza
Whose words
Quote
Where
Report
What the BBC published
"We are witnessing atrocities, and he has not apologised since," she said.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-16
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC complaints team
Where
BBC complaint response
What the BBC published
BBC News has provided our global audiences with coverage and first-hand testimony of the atrocities committed by Hamas, and the suffering in Gaza.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-16
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC complaints team
Where
BBC complaint response
What the BBC published
We have reported on the atrocities committed by Hamas in their assault on Israel and have heard many accounts from survivors of these attacks and family members of the victims, reflecting the trauma they are suffering.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-16
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Live post headline
What the BBC published
'Atrocity an existential strike at the very idea of Israel as a safe homeland'
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-16
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
"This atrocity was an existential strike at the very idea of Israel as a safe homeland."
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-16
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
"Every Israeli is traumatised by the Hamas massacre in innocent people. As the days go by, the atrocities are exposed," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-16
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
"We heard that 80% of the bodies were tortured, young women being raped, young babies being beheaded, those kind of atrocities, barbarism - pure evil the world hasn't seen since World War Two."
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-16
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
Some have had those they know or love caught up in the atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-16
About
Israel in Gaza
Whose words
Quote
Where
Report
What the BBC published
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meanwhile said his country had conveyed a message to Israel through its allies that "if they do not cease their atrocities in Gaza, Iran cannot simply remain an observer".
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-16
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Report
What the BBC published
After the recent atrocities by Hamas, troops are poised to go into Gaza once again.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-16
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Report
What the BBC published
But they did not make specific mention of the Israeli victims of violence, or the atrocities carried out by Hamas fighters against civilians, including many women and children.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-20
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Live post headline
What the BBC published
Israeli communities frozen as Hamas atrocities continue to emerge
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-20
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC's own
Where
Headline
What the BBC published
Israeli community frozen as Hamas atrocities continue to emerge
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-21
About
7 October
Whose words
Paraphrase
Where
Live page post
What the BBC published
He added that "there can be no justification" for the atrocities committed by Hamas and the UK "stands in solidarity with them against terrorism". The PM went on:
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-21
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC executive, quoted
Where
Report
What the BBC published
A BBC spokesperson said the corporation had provided audiences around the world with coverage and first-hand testimony "of the atrocities committed by Hamas, and the suffering in Gaza".
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-21
About
7 October
Whose words
BBC, someone's view
Where
Report
What the BBC published
More than 1,400 people were killed when gunmen breached security at the Gaza barrier and raided communities in southern Israel, with survivors reporting widespread atrocities including torture and bodies being burnt.
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-21
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Report
What the BBC published
Last week, Ariel Porat, the president of Tel Aviv University, said that a few students had been flagged for expressing "support for the atrocities of Hamas".
Uses
1
Page
Link
2023-10-22
About
7 October
Whose words
Quote
Where
Live page post
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“I have never encountered such severe horrors as I have encountered since the incident on 7 October,” he says. “The human soul is unable to cope with the atrocities committed.”
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2023-10-23
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"Our capacity to understand what has happened to us, the level of atrocities, is just phenomenal."
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2023-10-24
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7 October
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There are "atrocities we haven't even started to process", she says. "I don't know if my mum knows about the house, that everything is gone.
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2023-10-25
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7 October
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"I did see an enormous amount of atrocities beyond imagination.
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2023-10-25
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7 October
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Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight, Israeli spokesman Lior Haiat said the UN chief's speech contained just "one minute in empty words about the atrocities by Hamas terrorists" and gave "justification for terrorism".
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2023-10-25
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7 October
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"Instead of standing with the victims, he blames the victims for an atrocity that we haven’t seen the like of since the Holocaust," he continued.
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2023-10-26
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7 October
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It also added: "The use of civilians as human shields by Hamas is particularly deplorable atrocity."
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2023-10-26
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7 October
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Gilad Erdan goes on to list graphic details of some of the atrocities carried out on 7 October against Israeli civilians.
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2023-10-26
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7 October
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Later in his remarks, he says Hamas carried out atrocities "the likes of which we have not seen since the Holocaust".
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2023-10-27
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7 October
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The only way to ensure that the atrocities will never be repeated is the eradication of Hamas's terror capabilities.
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2023-10-27
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7 October
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'This is a world heritage site of atrocity'
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2023-10-27
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7 October
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"This is a world heritage site of atrocity, we need these people back home now," Lifschitz said. Her mother was freed earlier this week, but her father remains in captivity.
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2023-10-27
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7 October
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In several TikTok videos, Ayoub Khan questioned the extent of Hamas atrocities in Israel.
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2023-10-27
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7 October
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The Liberal Democrats are investigating a complaint about a Birmingham councillor over TikTok videos appearing to question the extent of atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel.
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2023-10-27
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7 October
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"The Liberal Democrats utterly condemn the terrible atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel on 7th October."
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2023-10-27
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Mr Desai criticised Labour's leadership as "unwilling to call out atrocities" against civilians in Gaza.
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2023-10-27
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He described his latest requests as "straightforward", adding that he thought Sir Keir should call for an immediate ceasefire and "condemn the atrocities being committed by Israel".
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2023-10-27
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"I cannot continue being a member of a party whose leadership [is] unwilling to callout atrocities against a civilian population," he said.
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2023-10-27
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The near-total telecommunications blackout in Gaza risks providing cover for "mass atrocities", Human Rights Watch said.
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2023-10-27
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"This information blackout risks providing cover for mass atrocities and contributing to impunity for human rights violations," the group's senior technology and human rights researcher, Deborah Brown, said in a statement.
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2023-10-28
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Blackout in Gaza could hide 'atrocities' - HRW
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2023-10-28
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The "near-total telecoms blackout" in Gaza could create a cover for "mass atrocities", a senior research at non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch has warned.
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2023-10-28
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Israel in Gaza
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"This information blackout risks providing cover for mass atrocities and contributing to impunity for human rights violations," senior technology and human rights researcher Deborah Brown said in a statement posted online.
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2023-10-28
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7 October
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A Birmingham councillor been offered anti-semitism training following complaints over TikTok videos appearing to question the extent of atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel.
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2023-10-28
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7 October
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"Liberal Democrats utterly condemn the terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October."
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2023-10-30
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7 October
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The atrocities of Hamas, Lazzarini says, do not absolve Israel from its obligations under International Humanitarian Law.
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2023-10-31
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7 October
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Some people felt that in following this long-standing editorial convention – given the scale of the current atrocities – we were siding with Hamas against Israel.
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2023-10-31
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7 October
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Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan has vowed to wear a yellow star until the UN Security Council condemns "the atrocities of Hamas" and demands the "immediate release" of hostages.
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2023-10-31
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7 October
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Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan has vowed to wear a yellow star until the UN Security Council condemns “the atrocities of Hamas” and demands the “immediate release” of hostages.
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2023-10-31
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7 October
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But he said Israel was fighting "a bitter enemy which had carried out shocking atrocities".
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2023-10-31
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7 October
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"This was a wake-up call on 7 October... reality shattered our beliefs. We see such atrocities and we ask, can we trust anybody?"
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2023-11-06
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7 October
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This evening, standing in its shadow, hundreds of Israelis gathered to mark 30 days since the atrocities of 7 October (when Hamas attacked Israel) - events which have shaken this country to its foundations.
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2023-11-06
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"The disparaging remarks against those speaking up against the atrocities and the country's leaders make ambassador Belotsercovsky position more and more untenable," the cabinet statement said.
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2023-11-06
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7 October
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He is the most senior member to speak to the BBC since the 7 October atrocities.
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2023-11-08
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7 October
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"The atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on 7 October were heinous, they were war crimes - as is the continued holding of hostages," Reuters news agency quoted him as saying.
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2023-11-08
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Other
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"It could be the thing that tips them into actually going ahead and committing those atrocities."
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2023-11-08
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7 October
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She said a ceasefire "risks allowing Hamas to regroup and to perpetuate further terrible atrocities that they have said they want the opportunity to do".
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2023-11-09
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7 October
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Volker Türk said the "atrocities" committed by Palestinian armed groups and the continued holding of hostages, were "war crimes" - as was "the collective punishment" of Palestinians by Israel and the "forcible evacuation of civilians".
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2023-11-09
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7 October
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Speaking on Wednesday at the Rafah border crossing, Volker Türk said: The atrocities that were perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on the seventh of October were heinous, brutal and shocking, they were war crimes as is the continued holding of hostages.”
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2023-11-09
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"The atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on 7 October were heinous, they were war crimes - as is the continued holding of hostages."
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2023-11-10
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Mukhtar Master, the Muslim lead on Preston's faith covenant, said that the city's mosques "could not sit idly by and allow the atrocities [in Gaza] to continue without any opposition".
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2023-11-14
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Indonesia’s leader urges US to do more to end ‘atrocities’ in Gaza
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2023-11-14
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"Indonesia appealed to the US to do more to stop the atrocities in Gaza," Widodo said following talks at the White House on Monday.
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2023-11-16
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Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday that a prolonged communications blackout could "provide cover for atrocities and breed impunity while further undermining humanitarian efforts and putting lives at risk".
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2023-11-17
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7 October
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This morning, a funeral was held for 19-year-old soldier Noa Marciano - who was one of about 240 people kidnapped during the 7 October atrocities.
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2023-11-17
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7 October
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The Green Party's co-leader, Carla Denyer, who is also a local councillor, collected the petition during the event and told the crowd: "[Hamas'] atrocities do not in any way justify the level of bombardment of civilians, including many Gazan children, that...
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2023-11-17
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7 October
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The letters condemn the atrocities carried out by Hamas during its surprise 7 October attack that killed around 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians.
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2023-11-18
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Kendall Gardner, a Jewish DPhil student at the University of Oxford, said: "The humanitarian situation in Gaza is an absolute atrocity.
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2023-11-20
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"All countries, especially those that have close relations with Israel, must use all their influence and capabilities to urge Israel to stop its atrocities."
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2023-11-22
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7 October
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Mr Heller has one wish. "Something of this magnitude should never happen again. The world must come together and ensure this awful atrocity should never happen, ever, ever again."
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2023-11-26
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7 October
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Chikli, of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, continues: "The ideology of Hamas, which is the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, this ideology is extremely dangerous and we can see how this inspired the atrocities of 7 October - the massacre, the rape, the...
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2023-12-04
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7 October
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The process of gathering evidence is in itself traumatic - and there is anger that organisations like UN Women took so long so speak out about atrocities committed by Hamas on Israelis.
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2023-12-04
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7 October
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There has been anger over the delay of some UN bodies to acknowledge claims of Hamas's sexual atrocities on 7 October.
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2023-12-04
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UN Women issued a statement - eight weeks after the attacks - acknowledging accounts of gender-based atrocities.
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2023-12-05
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7 October
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Addressing the nation, he said he expected all "civilised leaders, governments, nations to speak up against this atrocity".
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2023-12-05
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7 October
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“I say to the women's rights organisations, to the human rights organisations: you've heard of the rape of Israeli women, horrible atrocities, sexual mutilation - where the hell are you?" he said.
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2023-12-05
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7 October
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Last week, UN Women put out a statement saying it "unequivocally condemn[ed] the brutal attacks by Hamas" and was "alarmed by the numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities and sexual violence during those attacks".
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2023-12-05
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7 October
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"This is the most documented atrocity humanity has known," she told me.
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2023-12-06
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Israel in Gaza
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"The pattern of attacks that target or impact on civilian infrastructure raises serious concerns about Israel's compliance with international humanitarian law and significantly raises the risk of atrocity crimes," the agency said in a strongly worded...
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2023-12-06
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UN human rights chief warns of 'atrocity crimes' in Gaza
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2023-12-06
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Volker Turk was speaking in Geneva, where he told journalists that in the conflict in Gaza there was a heightened risk of "atrocity crimes".
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2023-12-06
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Both sides
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He also warned both Israel and Hamas leaders against what he said were "dehumanising statements" which could be seen by a competent court as "incitement to atrocity crimes".
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2023-12-08
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Israel in Gaza
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"By continuing to provide Israel with weapons and diplomatic cover as it commits atrocities, including collectively punishing the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, the US risks complicity in war crimes."
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2023-12-08
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He says that Israel conducts its war "through atrocities," and that "hundreds of people will be killed by this time tomorrow."
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2023-12-08
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7 October
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They say the UK could not "vote in favour of a resolution that does not condemn the atrocities Hamas committed" against Israelis on 7 October.
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2023-12-08
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7 October
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He told the UN that "a ceasefire cements Hamas’s control of Gaza" and sends a mesage that "Hamas is forgiven for their deliberate atrocities".
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2023-12-08
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7 October
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But after a few days, she decided that she couldn't allow the atrocities to change her.
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2023-12-09
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7 October
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The UK, its key ally, said the resolution “not condemn the atrocities Hamas committed” against Israelis on 7 October.
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2023-12-10
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“Our main concern is not the day after,” he said, in comments quoted by Al-Jazeera. “It is today. We want the stop of atrocities and genocide that (are) happening today.”
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2023-12-17
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7 October
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What the BBC published
The atrocities committed in their raid into southern Israel on 7 October were gratuitously cruel and violent.
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2023-12-22
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7 October
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These are just two examples - viewed millions of times each - showcasing the social media schism in the Israel-Gaza war that has brought denial of atrocities and human suffering to the forefront of online debate about the conflict.
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2023-12-22
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7 October
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On the other hand, while supporters of the Palestinians do not have a single term used to deny atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October in Israel, posts making such claims routinely get millions of views on social media.
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2023-12-22
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Unclear
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False narratives about "crisis actors" or atrocity denial are not new to those who study disinformation.
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2023-12-28
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7 October
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Soldiers explicitly said that cases of ill-treatment monitored by the UN were in retaliation for the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October.
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2024-01-03
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7 October
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What the BBC published
The masterminds of Hamas's 7 October atrocities in southern Israel, including Yahya Sinwar, are still believed to be hiding somewhere in Gaza despite Israel's turbo-charged manhunt.
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2024-01-05
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7 October
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At a huge exhibition centre in the city of Tel Aviv, Tal Shimoni - a survivor of the Nova Festival atrocity - shows me around an incredible installation, an almost complete reproduction of the Nova site.
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2024-01-07
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7 October
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"The overwhelming majority of the Palestinians do not believe Hamas has committed any atrocities, the overwhelming majority has not seen any videos that show atrocities.
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2024-01-11
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On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "the hypocrisy of South Africa screams to the heavens" - criticising the country for failing to respond to atrocities in Syria and Yemen committed by "partners of Hamas".
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2024-01-20
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"The attacks in Iraq and Syria were retaliation for the general as well as the atrocity in Kerman," explains Prof Marandi.
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2024-01-26
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Human Rights Watch has described the ICJ's ruling as a "landmark decision", saying that it "puts Israel and its allies on notice that immediate action is needed to prevent genocide and further atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza".
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2024-01-30
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7 October
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Former minister Theresa Villiers told the Commons "bringing forward and accelerating unilateral recognition of Palestinian state would be to reward Hamas' atrocities".
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2024-02-01
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7 October
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BBC Editorial Complaints Unit finding
What the BBC published
The ECU did not agree therefore that it was incumbent on the presenter to ask if he condemned the atrocities of 7 October or if he thought Israel was justified to attack Hamas militants, as the complainant suggested.
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2024-02-12
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In a clear warning to Israel over its obligations under international law, Türk said fighting in Rafah risked "further atrocity crimes".
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2024-02-20
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7 October
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In response to the prince, Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said: "Israelis of course want to see an end to the fighting as soon as possible, and that will be possible once the 134 hostages are released, and once the Hamas terror army threatening to...
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2024-02-21
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7 October
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The longer answer is Labour is a party that aspires to be in government in a matter of months, and has found itself in some awkwardness at the very least ever since the Hamas atrocities in Israel in October.
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2024-03-01
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"Oxfam does not support US air drops to Gaza, which would mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior US officials whose policies are contributing to the ongoing atrocities and risk of famine in Gaza," the charity group said.
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2024-03-01
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"Oxfam does not support US airdrops to Gaza, which would mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior US officials whose policies are contributing to the ongoing atrocities and risk of famine in Gaza," the charity group said on Friday.
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2024-03-03
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7 October
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There is also "massive disgust at what is going on in Gaza at the moment, with obviously the understanding that the atrocity that began all of this was the particular set of events on 7 October".
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2024-03-08
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7 October
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It says: "Agency staff members have been subject to threats and coercion by the Israeli authorities while in detention, and pressured to make false statements against the Agency, including that the Agency has affiliations with Hamas and that UNRWA staff...
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2024-03-11
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Somehow, step by step, that leads to atrocity."
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2024-03-23
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Other
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It accuses the Kremlin of atrocities against Muslim people in military campaigns in Chechnya and Syria, as well as in the Soviet-era invasion of Afghanistan.
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2024-03-25
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Other
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Standfirst
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The assault on Crocus City Hall is not the first atrocity believed to be carried out by the Islamic State-Khorasan group.
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2024-03-29
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Israel in Gaza
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"I hope and pray that our calls are answered and there is an end to the atrocities we are seeing taking place in Gaza."
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2024-04-04
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7 October
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They say that in the IDF’s pursuit of Hamas, in response to the atrocities committed on 7 October, it has killed so many civilians and wreaked so much destruction on Gaza that it has created an entire generation of future fighters who will now be intent on...
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2024-04-07
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7 October
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"Obviously, Israel suffered a terrible atrocity in the hands of Hamas but it went to war instead of [having] a strategy and political objective which is achievable.
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2024-04-07
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7 October
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What the BBC published
The atrocities of 7 October shocked Israel to its core.
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2024-04-07
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7 October
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What the BBC published
Opinion polls show strong support among Palestinians for the attacks on 7 October, though many deny the evidence that Hamas committed atrocities.
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Conservative MP Alicia Kearns asks the prime minister whether he will commit to launch "a new consensus on Iran with our allies, and a new effort with combined diplomatic, military and wider expert areas to limit the extent of the atrocities of Iran".
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2024-04-24
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"What we cannot allow, in this current situation where we have seen in Gaza numerous grave human rights violations, many of them potentially war crimes, and where we have raised alarm of potential atrocity crimes, that this becomes another blip.
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2024-05-06
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The charity says Israel's actions should prompt immediate action from the international community to prevent more atrocities.
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2024-05-07
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From there, he drew a line to people who are also forgetting the atrocities of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel.
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2024-05-14
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Mr Shoukry asserted that Israel was "solely responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe currently endured by Palestinians in Gaza", which he said was "a direct result of indiscriminate Israeli atrocities committed against the Palestinians for more than...
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2024-05-16
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Addressing the court at the start of the hearing, South African barrister Vaughan Lowe KC said that "evidence of appalling crimes and atrocities is literally being destroyed and bulldozed, in effect wiping the slate clean for those who've committed these...
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2024-05-20
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A spokesperson for Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organisation with headquarters in New York City, says the decision taken by prosecutor Karim Khan is a "principled first step" which "opens the door to those responsible for the atrocities committed...
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2024-05-20
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Prior to his election at the ICC, he led a UN investigation that targeted perpetrators of IS atrocities in Iraq and served as an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN.
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2024-05-20
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So I support the historic step that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken to bring justice to victims of atrocities in Israel and Palestine."
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2024-05-24
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It called for sanctions against those responsible for the atrocities, including the RSF leader, Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti.
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2024-07-04
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My family did not flee a war-torn country to come here as refugees for me to remain silent when I see atrocities inflicted on innocent people,” she said during a press conference on her resignation.
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2024-07-11
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He said councillors from all political colours, and from all across Bradford, had spoken out against the atrocities in Gaza.
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2024-07-23
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"The idea of the man responsible for these atrocities being allowed to come here, channels my rage," she said.
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2024-08-19
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"The Scottish government has been consistent in our unequivocal condemnation of the atrocities we have witnessed in Gaza," he said.
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2024-08-20
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In a statement released on Monday announcing that further meetings with Israeli officials would be suspended, Mr Robertson said the government had been "consistent in our unequivocal condemnation of the atrocities we have witnessed in Gaza".
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2024-08-26
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The BBC contacted both broadcasters but received no response. Yehuda Schlesinger replied, highlighting the atrocities of 7 October.
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2024-09-26
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Meanwhile, Qatar joined calls for a de-escalation with government spokesman Majed al-Ansari saying the country had received "horrific reports from Lebanon about targeting whole families, in a way that is similar to the atrocities in Gaza".
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2024-09-26
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Qatar says it is receiving "horrific reports from Lebanon about targeting whole families, in a way that is similar to the atrocities in Gaza".
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2024-10-06
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He said: “When the event happened a year ago the news was all about the terrible atrocities that happened in Israel, then after about a week people started forgetting about what happened on 7 October."
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2024-10-14
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Describing the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October as the "worst atrocities committed against Jews since the Holocaust", the council accused Plaid of lending "justification to these heinous acts of terror".
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2024-10-15
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The UN's humanitarian affairs agency said in a statement that “people burned to death” and “atrocities must end”, while a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council called the footage “disturbing”.
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2024-10-17
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Israel had hunted the architect of the 7 October atrocities for more than a year. A chance encounter in Rafah got him.
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2024-10-17
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He had undoubtedly felt the Israeli pressure growing as other Hamas leaders, such as Mohammad Dief and Ismail Haniyeh, were killed, and as Israel destroyed the infrastructure he had used to prosecute the atrocities of 7 October.
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2024-10-17
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He says the Hamas leader was killed by Israeli soldiers today, describing him as the "mastermind behind the massacre and atrocities" of 7 October.
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2024-10-18
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A senior UN Official has warned that “history will ask questions” about what the international community was doing when atrocities were happening in Gaza.
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2024-10-20
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On Saturday, the UN's top humanitarian official, Joyce Msuya, said that Palestinians in northern Gaza are enduring "unspeakable horrors" and called for these "atrocities" to stop.
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2024-10-20
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The UN's top humanitarian official, Joyce Msuya, said on Saturday that Palestinians in northern Gaza are enduring "unspeakable horrors" and called for these "atrocities" to stop.
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2024-10-25
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We are facing what could amount to atrocity crimes, including potentially extending to crimes against humanity.”
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2024-10-28
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We are facing what could amount to atrocity crimes, including potentially extending to crimes against humanity," Mr Türk added.
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2024-11-08
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The report said it found "unprecedented" levels of international law violations, raising concerns about "war crimes and other possible atrocity crimes".
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2024-11-21
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Israelis are appalled that, in their eyes, the world seems to have already forgotten or overlooked the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October last year.
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2024-12-03
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He went on to say: "If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these...
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2024-12-03
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"If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against...
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2024-12-18
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Dr Jim Swire hopes that an upcoming Sky TV series on the atrocity will spark fresh public debate.
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2024-12-18
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The father of a Lockerbie bombing victim has called on Sir Keir Starmer to publish everything the UK government knows about the atrocity.
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2025-02-06
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It pledged to continue "providing justice and hope to millions of innocent victims of atrocities across the world".
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2025-02-06
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The court's technical and IT operations - including evidence gathering - could also be affected. Observers have voiced fears that victims of alleged atrocities may hesitate to testify.
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2025-02-21
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"Afterwards, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities," he said, without giving specifics about the alleged injuries. Hamas has not yet responded to these accusations.
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2025-03-19
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"They're saying to us: What does it say about our values that we can't stop a 21st Century atrocity happening before our eyes - and not just happening, but being cheered on before our eyes?"
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2025-04-11
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Once the fighting stops, the thinking goes, both soldiers and civilians will remember whether those on the other side obeyed international law, or whether they committed atrocities.
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2025-04-14
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"His detention is an attempt to silence those who speak out against the atrocities in Gaza. It is also unconstitutional."
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2025-04-20
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"Without accountability, we risk continuing to watch atrocities unfolding, and the norms designed to protect us all, eroding."
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2025-05-13
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So there is absolutely no doubt that we are talking about massive atrocities.
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2025-05-13
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We have under our watch let a massive atrocity unfold."
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2025-05-13
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7 October
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He says "all civilised people must condemn the October 7 atrocities against Israel", claiming it would never had happened had he been president at the time.
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2025-05-16
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Undergraduate Logan Rozos told the crowd on Wednesday that he condemned the "atrocities currently happening in Palestine", drawing cheers and some boos.
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2025-05-17
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"Atrocities are becoming a new norm, under our watch, making the unbearable bearable with indifference," he said.
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2025-05-19
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7 October
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Netanyahu responded with a statement accusing the three leaders of asking Israel to "end a defensive war for our survival", saying that, by doing so, they were "offering a huge prize" for the 7 October attacks while "inviting more such atrocities".
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2025-05-20
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Netanyahu has hit back, saying the "leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities".
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2025-05-20
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7 October
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Netanyahu hit back at the suggestion: "By asking Israel to end a defensive war for our survival before Hamas terrorists on our border are destroyed and by demanding a Palestinian state, the leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for...
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2025-05-20
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"By asking Israel to end a defensive war for our survival before Hamas terrorists on our border are destroyed, and by demanding a Palestinian state, the leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on...
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2025-05-30
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7 October
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused Mr Fletcher of ignoring Hamas's atrocities and echoing their propaganda. "It's not humanitarian work, it's blood libel," the ministry said at the time.
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2025-06-01
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"With competing narratives and disinformation campaigns in full gear, international media must be allowed into Gaza to independently report on the ongoing atrocities including this morning’s heinous crime," he adds.
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2025-06-04
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Two weeks later, US President Donald Trump announced plans to lift decade-old sanctions on Syria, imposed in response to atrocities committed by forces loyal to Assad during the civil war.
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2025-06-08
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Prof Blatman, who is the son of Holocaust survivors, says that Israeli politicians have for many years used the memory of the Holocaust as "a tool to attack governments and public opinion in the world, and warn them that accusing Israel of any atrocities...
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2025-06-09
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7 October
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In a post on X, he accused Greta Thunberg and other activists onboard the Madleen of supporting Hamas, adding that it was "appropriate" for them to see what atrocities Hamas had committed "against women, the elderly, and children, and against whom Israel...
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2025-06-19
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He said US involvement would turn the conflict into a "quagmire", continue aggression and delay an end to the "brutal atrocities".
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2025-06-19
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He said US involvement would be "hell for the whole region", that would turn the conflict into a "quagmire", continue aggression, and delay an end to the "brutal atrocities".
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2025-06-30
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"The atrocities we are witnessing in Gaza are precisely because governments don't think the rules should apply to them," said Yasmine Ahmed, UK director of Human Rights Watch.
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2025-06-30
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"Judicial deference to the executive in this case has left the Palestinians in Gaza without access to the protections of international law, despite the government and the court acknowledging that there is a serious risk that UK equipment might be used to...
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2025-07-08
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That includes an evidentiary framework to categorise information based on its proximity to incidents and its evidentiary value, and a legal framework for establishing criminal responsibility for atrocities committed during mass attacks, even when an...
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2025-07-17
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All sides - Druze, Bedouin and government forces - have been accused of atrocities.
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2025-07-19
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All sides are accused of atrocities.
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2025-07-19
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"And they must hold accountable and bring to justice anyone guilty of atrocities including those in their own ranks," the top US diplomat added.
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2025-07-27
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But she said now was not the right time to recognise a Palestinian state as it would "reward" Hamas after "carrying out one of the worst atrocities in recent memory".
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2025-07-28
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Mr Fletcher also warned that UN teams on the ground believed the Israeli military's pauses would only last a week or so, which he said would be "clearly insufficient when before our eyes we're seeing this 21st Century atrocity on the ground".
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2025-07-28
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In a statement, the Zamfara government condemned the killings calling them "barbaric and cowardly" and declared that such atrocities added to its resolve to wipe out terrorism from the state.
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2025-07-28
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Asked how long the humanitarian pause will last to allow more aid in, he says he's heard "from the team on the ground" that pauses will last "a week or so", which he says is "clearly insufficient" when they're seeing a "21st Century atrocity".
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2025-07-30
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"Recognising a Palestinian state in the aftermath of the October 7 terrorist atrocities sends the wrong message to the world," the opposition party said in a statement.
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2025-07-30
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"Hamas is a vile terrorist organisation that has committed appalling atrocities.
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2025-08-02
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'Terrible atrocities'
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2025-08-02
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"I have seen reports of terrible atrocities which have the character of being genocide.
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2025-08-03
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Sydney-based activist organisation Palestine Action Group lodged a notice of intention for the march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge last Sunday, in response to what it called the "atrocity" in Gaza.
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2025-08-07
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The UN human rights chief Volker Türk also warned that "further escalation will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes".
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2025-08-08
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The UN's human rights chief Volker Türk says "the war in Gaza must end now" and warns that further escalation "will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes".
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2025-08-08
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UN human rights chief Volker Turk warned that further escalation would "result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes".
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2025-08-08
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The plan has been met with heavy condemnation by much of the international community, with United Nations (UN) human rights chief Volker Türk saying it would "result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless...
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2025-08-08
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United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk says "the war in Gaza must end now" and warns that further escalation "will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes".
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2025-09-09
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"I think he needs to explain how, when we have seen so much evidence of the atrocities being perpetrated by the Israeli army, how he can possibly claim that the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) is the most moral army in the world.
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2025-09-09
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"End the impunity before atrocities become the new norm," he writes.
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2025-09-19
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Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour called the US's decision "deeply regrettable and painful", saying it had prevented the Security Council from "playing its rightful role in the face of these atrocities".
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2025-09-22
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Jordan Bardella, of the far-right National Rally, said it was a "mistake, while Hamas still holds Israeli hostages", and he pointed out that it amounted to "rewarding the atrocities committed on 7 October [2023], during the deadliest attack ever known by...
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2025-09-22
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin said 7 October was "a heinous atrocity of young music followers going to a concert, and they were mowed down".
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2025-09-22
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Gavin also criticised his opponent for not acknowledging the "atrocities and horrific crimes that Hamas committed over two years ago".
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2025-09-23
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Recognising Palestinian statehood, as several Western countries attending the UN assembly have done in recent days, would be a "reward" for the atrocities carried out by Hamas, he said.
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2025-09-23
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Trump says "this would be a reward" for Hamas's atrocities.
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2025-09-24
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Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News, said: "It is almost two years since October 7th when the world witnessed Hamas' atrocities.
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2025-09-24
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It features footage of historic events and atrocities captured by journalists.
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2025-10-03
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Defend Our Juries member, Sir Jonathon Porritt, told the BBC that he had "no doubt" that "everyone taking part in the silent vigil today will demonstrate huge respect and real grief for those affected by the absolute atrocity at Heaton Park."
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2025-10-04
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She added: "I think it's possible for us to be compassionate and open our hearts to victims of multiple atrocities at one time."
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2025-10-05
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"We remember all subsequent atrocities since that original day," he added.
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2025-10-07
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"On the anniversary of the atrocities of October 7, students are once again planning protests," he said.
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2025-10-07
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"Today, on the anniversary of the atrocities of October 7, students are once again planning protests.
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2025-10-07
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And, of course, today marks the second anniversary of the atrocities of the 7 October massacre in Israel, carried out by Hamas terrorists.
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2025-10-09
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But he stressed that "it is now time to engage in dialogue, to assist the civilian population, and to look to the future with hope, but also with justice and with remembrance so that the atrocities experienced are never repeated".
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He told MPs: "This move, taken alongside our allies France, Canada, Australia and others, helped lead to the historic New York declaration, where for the first time the entire Arab League condemned the atrocities of October 7, urged Hamas to disarm and,...
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Connolly is an outspoken supporter of Palestine and frequently speaks about the "genocide" in Gaza and criticises "atrocities" committed by Israel.
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How Trump's pledge to tackle Sudan atrocities could play out
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He later posted on social media that "tremendous atrocities are taking place in Sudan.
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Hemedti publicly offers compromise. But the atrocities of his troops tell a different story and few people of the cities they have ransacked will contemplate living under their rule.
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In a follow-up post on Monday, Mr Vince said he had not intended to "excuse or legitimise terrorism, or any form of racism", adding that "what happened at Bondi beach is an atrocity".
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"In contrast, I was cancelled because my presence and identity as a Palestinian was deemed 'culturally insensitive' and linked to the Bondi atrocity," her statement continued.
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Chris Sidoti, an Australian human rights lawyer and a member of the UN commission that wrote the report, on Thursday called for Herzog to be arrested, arguing the immunity traditionally granted to heads of state should not apply to "atrocity crimes" such...
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Israeli operating licences can be lost through actions such as "delegitimisation of the State of Israel, legal campaigns targeting soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Holocaust denial, denial of the 7 October atrocities or documented cooperation...
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Put to him that it was understood the school was near an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base, he replies: "That's simply a way of normalising atrocity and atrocious crime."
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"There were a lot of atrocities went on, and what kept us going was the GAA," he said.
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Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi called it an "atrocity at sea" and said the US would "bitterly regret" the attack.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said last week the US had "perpetrated an atrocity at sea, 2,000 miles away from Iran's shores" and that the warship was "struck in international waters without warning."
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"So, if you want to talk about violence, if you want to talk about atrocities, then point the finger to the state of Israel.
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"Elrayess isn't just defending a proscribed terrorist group, she is actively whitewashing atrocities," they said.
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"Arwa Elrayess has chosen to minimise mass atrocities, argue that terrorist actions are 'proportional', and laud a proscribed terrorist organisation."
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He also warned that the killing of civilians "raises concerns of continuing violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes and other possible atrocity crimes in Gaza".
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Kaiss said: "Israeli forces' continued killing of journalists shows a brazen willingness to commit atrocities without any fear of consequences."
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Eisenberg said: "The money that flows from sham charities like the one described in the complaint fuels Hamas's terrorist activities, including the atrocities the group committed on October 7".
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When asked about his meeting with Hamas, Kushner replied: "They said all the right things - but obviously it's very, very hard to trust a terrorist organisation that committed these terrible atrocities.
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He says Hamas's 7 October attacks on Israel were a "murderous atrocity" and that the group can play "no role in the future of Gaza".
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2023-10-08	7 October	BBC's own, hedged	Report	Other unverified atrocities too graphic to publish were captured on camera, including a motorist being dragged from his car and having his throat slashed, and the bodies of dead civilians and soldiers being defiled.	1	Link
2023-10-09	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"Our countries will support Israel in its efforts to defend itself and its people against such atrocities," the statement continues, adding: "This is not a moment for any party hostile to Israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage."	1	Link
2023-10-09	7 October	Quote	Caption	The paper quotes Netanyahu as saying "the atrocities committed by Hamas have not been seen since Isis [Islamic State] atrocities".	2	Link
2023-10-10	7 October	Paraphrase	Live page post	He calls Hamas blood-thirsty, saying the events are reminiscent of the worst atrocities committed by Isis, otherwise known as the so-called Islamic State group, and condemns them for "more than 1,000 civilians slaughtered.	1	Link
2023-10-10	7 October	Quote	Report	In another statement issued later on Tuesday, the university's president, Claudine Gay, clarified that the school "condemn[ed] the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas".	1	Link
2023-10-11	7 October	BBC complaints team	BBC complaint response	Our coverage of the unprecedented assault on Israel by Hamas has made clear the nature of the atrocities committed and the impact this has had on civilians.	1	Link
2023-10-11	7 October	Quote	Live page post	He described the actions of militant group Hamas as “sheer evil” that “in some cases exceeds the worst atrocities of ISIS”.	1	Link
2023-10-11	7 October	BBC's own	Live page post	Kibbutz Be'eri was the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Hamas attack in southern Israel last Saturday.	1	Link
2023-10-11	7 October	Paraphrase	Caption	The paper says he was backed by the Prince and Princess of Wales, whom it quoted as saying: "The horrors inflicted by Hamas's terrorist attack upon Israel are appalling." The Mail says the use of the word "terrorism" to describe the atrocities "came in...	1	Link
2023-10-11	7 October	Quote	Report	He said the vigil "expressed simple sorrow and solidarity" after the "terrible atrocities which went beyond the pale".	1	Link
2023-10-11	7 October	BBC's own	Report	From Israel: Community frozen as Hamas atrocities emerge	1	Link
2023-10-11	7 October	BBC's own	Report	Government ministers, newspaper columnists, ordinary people - they're all asking why the BBC doesn't say the Hamas gunmen who carried out appalling atrocities in southern Israel are terrorists.	1	Link
2023-10-11	7 October	BBC's own	Report	It's perfectly reasonable to call the incidents that have occurred "atrocities", because that's exactly what they are.	1	Link
2023-10-12	7 October	Quote	Live page post	During the call, Sunak said "the UK stands side by side with Israel in fighting terror and agreed that Hamas can never again be able to perpetrate atrocities against the Israeli people".	1	Link
2023-10-12	7 October	BBC's own	Live page post	As the fog of war continues to swirl around this new conflict, any walking back or confusion risks aiding those who are trying to sow misinformation and cast doubt on events and atrocities that are verifiably true.	1	Link
2023-10-12	7 October	Paraphrase	Caption	The paper says he was backed by the Prince and Princess of Wales, whom it quoted as saying: "The horrors inflicted by Hamas's terrorist attack upon Israel are appalling." The Mail says the use of the word "terrorism" to describe the atrocities "came in...	1	Link
2023-10-12	7 October	Quote	Report	"Flying the Israeli flag outside the Senedd would send a strong message that we all stand against terrorism and the atrocities that we have seen," he said.	1	Link
2023-10-13	7 October	Quote	Live page post	“This is an atrocity against civilians... rounding up people, kidnapping some of them, [murdering] many of them in horrific ways,” Rabbi Goldberg said.	1	Link
2023-10-13	7 October	BBC's own	Live page post	Israelis are reeling with shock and anger, appalled at details continuing to come out about the atrocities by Hamas gunmen in southern Israel.	1	Link
2023-10-13	7 October	BBC, someone's view	Live page post	Israel's government has taken the decision to share graphic images of children killed by Hamas, as it emphasises the atrocities committed at the weekend.	1	Link
2023-10-13	7 October	Paraphrase	Report	"We do not believe that Russia was involved in any way," Israel's ambassador to Moscow, Alexander Ben Zvi, told the Kommersant newspaper this week, adding that it was "complete nonsense" to suggest there was a Russian connection to the atrocities committed...	1	Link
2023-10-13	7 October	BBC's own	Report	With Neta visibly tiring and her nurse despatching herself to retrieve more painkillers, I ask Neta how she thinks the Israeli government should respond to the massacre of her community and the other atrocities.	1	Link
2023-10-13	7 October	Paraphrase	Standfirst	My mother would say the atrocities are the result of not striving for peace, he tells Jeremy Bowen.	1	Link
2023-10-13	7 October	BBC's own, hedged	Report	"They are not decapitating babies' heads," Mr DeSantis said, in reference to unconfirmed reports of specific Hamas atrocities on Saturday. "They are not intentionally doing that."	1	Link
2023-10-14	7 October	BBC's own	Live page post	I’ve been speaking to Yotam Kipnis, whose parents and six other family members are missing after the atrocities at kibbutz Be’eri.	1	Link
2023-10-14	Both sides	Quote	Report	They said following the "horrific killings and atrocities" on both sides, and the "deep devastation, grief and fear being felt by our communities in our city and beyond" they were "deeply disappointed and alarmed" by Sir Keir's comments.	1	Link
2023-10-15	7 October	BBC, someone's view	Live page post	Before Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg comes off air, we heard from the panel - starting with former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind who reflects on the scale of the atrocities and where we are now.	1	Link
2023-10-15	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	"If they do not cease their atrocities in Gaza, Iran cannot simply remain an observer," Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told Al Jazeera.	1	Link
2023-10-15	7 October	BBC's own	Live page post	The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said earlier that 2,450 people have been killed in Israel's bombing campaign against the territory, which was launched in the aftermath of last week's atrocities.	1	Link
2023-10-15	7 October	BBC, someone's view	Report	Israel declared a "complete siege" of Gaza on Monday, saying electricity, food, fuel and water would be cut off in response to the Hamas attacks and atrocities.	1	Link
2023-10-15	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"We are witnessing atrocities, and he has not apologised since," she said.	1	Link
2023-10-16	7 October	BBC complaints team	BBC complaint response	BBC News has provided our global audiences with coverage and first-hand testimony of the atrocities committed by Hamas, and the suffering in Gaza.	1	Link
2023-10-16	7 October	BBC complaints team	BBC complaint response	We have reported on the atrocities committed by Hamas in their assault on Israel and have heard many accounts from survivors of these attacks and family members of the victims, reflecting the trauma they are suffering.	1	Link
2023-10-16	7 October	Quote	Live post headline	'Atrocity an existential strike at the very idea of Israel as a safe homeland'	1	Link
2023-10-16	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"This atrocity was an existential strike at the very idea of Israel as a safe homeland."	1	Link
2023-10-16	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"Every Israeli is traumatised by the Hamas massacre in innocent people. As the days go by, the atrocities are exposed," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.	1	Link
2023-10-16	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"We heard that 80% of the bodies were tortured, young women being raped, young babies being beheaded, those kind of atrocities, barbarism - pure evil the world hasn't seen since World War Two."	1	Link
2023-10-16	7 October	BBC's own	Live page post	Some have had those they know or love caught up in the atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel.	1	Link
2023-10-16	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meanwhile said his country had conveyed a message to Israel through its allies that "if they do not cease their atrocities in Gaza, Iran cannot simply remain an observer".	1	Link
2023-10-16	7 October	BBC's own	Report	After the recent atrocities by Hamas, troops are poised to go into Gaza once again.	1	Link
2023-10-16	7 October	BBC's own	Report	But they did not make specific mention of the Israeli victims of violence, or the atrocities carried out by Hamas fighters against civilians, including many women and children.	1	Link
2023-10-20	7 October	BBC's own	Live post headline	Israeli communities frozen as Hamas atrocities continue to emerge	1	Link
2023-10-20	7 October	BBC's own	Headline	Israeli community frozen as Hamas atrocities continue to emerge	1	Link
2023-10-21	7 October	Paraphrase	Live page post	He added that "there can be no justification" for the atrocities committed by Hamas and the UK "stands in solidarity with them against terrorism". The PM went on:	1	Link
2023-10-21	7 October	BBC executive, quoted	Report	A BBC spokesperson said the corporation had provided audiences around the world with coverage and first-hand testimony "of the atrocities committed by Hamas, and the suffering in Gaza".	1	Link
2023-10-21	7 October	BBC, someone's view	Report	More than 1,400 people were killed when gunmen breached security at the Gaza barrier and raided communities in southern Israel, with survivors reporting widespread atrocities including torture and bodies being burnt.	1	Link
2023-10-21	7 October	Quote	Report	Last week, Ariel Porat, the president of Tel Aviv University, said that a few students had been flagged for expressing "support for the atrocities of Hamas".	1	Link
2023-10-22	7 October	Quote	Live page post	“I have never encountered such severe horrors as I have encountered since the incident on 7 October,” he says. “The human soul is unable to cope with the atrocities committed.”	1	Link
2023-10-23	7 October	Quote	Report	"Our capacity to understand what has happened to us, the level of atrocities, is just phenomenal."	1	Link
2023-10-24	7 October	Quote	Live page post	There are "atrocities we haven't even started to process", she says. "I don't know if my mum knows about the house, that everything is gone.	1	Link
2023-10-25	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"I did see an enormous amount of atrocities beyond imagination.	1	Link
2023-10-25	7 October	Quote	Live page post	Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight, Israeli spokesman Lior Haiat said the UN chief's speech contained just "one minute in empty words about the atrocities by Hamas terrorists" and gave "justification for terrorism".	1	Link
2023-10-25	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"Instead of standing with the victims, he blames the victims for an atrocity that we haven’t seen the like of since the Holocaust," he continued.	1	Link
2023-10-26	7 October	Quote	Live page post	It also added: "The use of civilians as human shields by Hamas is particularly deplorable atrocity."	1	Link
2023-10-26	7 October	BBC, someone's view	Live page post	Gilad Erdan goes on to list graphic details of some of the atrocities carried out on 7 October against Israeli civilians.	1	Link
2023-10-26	7 October	Paraphrase	Live page post	Later in his remarks, he says Hamas carried out atrocities "the likes of which we have not seen since the Holocaust".	1	Link
2023-10-27	7 October	Quote	Live page post	The only way to ensure that the atrocities will never be repeated is the eradication of Hamas's terror capabilities.	1	Link
2023-10-27	7 October	Quote	Live post headline	'This is a world heritage site of atrocity'	1	Link
2023-10-27	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"This is a world heritage site of atrocity, we need these people back home now," Lifschitz said. Her mother was freed earlier this week, but her father remains in captivity.	1	Link
2023-10-27	7 October	BBC's own	Standfirst	In several TikTok videos, Ayoub Khan questioned the extent of Hamas atrocities in Israel.	1	Link
2023-10-27	7 October	BBC's own	Report	The Liberal Democrats are investigating a complaint about a Birmingham councillor over TikTok videos appearing to question the extent of atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel.	1	Link
2023-10-27	7 October	Quote	Report	"The Liberal Democrats utterly condemn the terrible atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel on 7th October."	1	Link
2023-10-27	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Mr Desai criticised Labour's leadership as "unwilling to call out atrocities" against civilians in Gaza.	1	Link
2023-10-27	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	He described his latest requests as "straightforward", adding that he thought Sir Keir should call for an immediate ceasefire and "condemn the atrocities being committed by Israel".	1	Link
2023-10-27	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"I cannot continue being a member of a party whose leadership [is] unwilling to callout atrocities against a civilian population," he said.	1	Link
2023-10-27	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	The near-total telecommunications blackout in Gaza risks providing cover for "mass atrocities", Human Rights Watch said.	1	Link
2023-10-27	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"This information blackout risks providing cover for mass atrocities and contributing to impunity for human rights violations," the group's senior technology and human rights researcher, Deborah Brown, said in a statement.	1	Link
2023-10-28	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live post headline	Blackout in Gaza could hide 'atrocities' - HRW	1	Link
2023-10-28	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	The "near-total telecoms blackout" in Gaza could create a cover for "mass atrocities", a senior research at non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch has warned.	1	Link
2023-10-28	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	"This information blackout risks providing cover for mass atrocities and contributing to impunity for human rights violations," senior technology and human rights researcher Deborah Brown said in a statement posted online.	1	Link
2023-10-28	7 October	BBC's own	Report	A Birmingham councillor been offered anti-semitism training following complaints over TikTok videos appearing to question the extent of atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel.	1	Link
2023-10-28	7 October	Quote	Report	"Liberal Democrats utterly condemn the terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October."	1	Link
2023-10-30	7 October	Paraphrase	Live page post	The atrocities of Hamas, Lazzarini says, do not absolve Israel from its obligations under International Humanitarian Law.	1	Link
2023-10-31	7 October	BBC complaints team	BBC complaint response	Some people felt that in following this long-standing editorial convention – given the scale of the current atrocities – we were siding with Hamas against Israel.	1	Link
2023-10-31	7 October	Quote	Video page text	Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan has vowed to wear a yellow star until the UN Security Council condemns "the atrocities of Hamas" and demands the "immediate release" of hostages.	1	Link
2023-10-31	7 October	Quote	Live page post	Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan has vowed to wear a yellow star until the UN Security Council condemns “the atrocities of Hamas” and demands the “immediate release” of hostages.	1	Link
2023-10-31	7 October	Quote	Report	But he said Israel was fighting "a bitter enemy which had carried out shocking atrocities".	1	Link
2023-10-31	7 October	Quote	Report	"This was a wake-up call on 7 October... reality shattered our beliefs. We see such atrocities and we ask, can we trust anybody?"	1	Link
2023-11-06	7 October	BBC's own	Live page post	This evening, standing in its shadow, hundreds of Israelis gathered to mark 30 days since the atrocities of 7 October (when Hamas attacked Israel) - events which have shaken this country to its foundations.	1	Link
2023-11-06	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"The disparaging remarks against those speaking up against the atrocities and the country's leaders make ambassador Belotsercovsky position more and more untenable," the cabinet statement said.	1	Link
2023-11-06	7 October	BBC's own	Report	He is the most senior member to speak to the BBC since the 7 October atrocities.	1	Link
2023-11-08	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"The atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on 7 October were heinous, they were war crimes - as is the continued holding of hostages," Reuters news agency quoted him as saying.	1	Link
2023-11-08	Other	Quote	Report	"It could be the thing that tips them into actually going ahead and committing those atrocities."	1	Link
2023-11-08	7 October	Quote	Report	She said a ceasefire "risks allowing Hamas to regroup and to perpetuate further terrible atrocities that they have said they want the opportunity to do".	1	Link
2023-11-09	7 October	Quote	Live page post	Volker Türk said the "atrocities" committed by Palestinian armed groups and the continued holding of hostages, were "war crimes" - as was "the collective punishment" of Palestinians by Israel and the "forcible evacuation of civilians".	1	Link
2023-11-09	7 October	Quote	Live page post	Speaking on Wednesday at the Rafah border crossing, Volker Türk said: The atrocities that were perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on the seventh of October were heinous, brutal and shocking, they were war crimes as is the continued holding of hostages.”	1	Link
2023-11-09	7 October	Quote	Report	"The atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on 7 October were heinous, they were war crimes - as is the continued holding of hostages."	1	Link
2023-11-10	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Mukhtar Master, the Muslim lead on Preston's faith covenant, said that the city's mosques "could not sit idly by and allow the atrocities [in Gaza] to continue without any opposition".	1	Link
2023-11-14	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live post headline	Indonesia’s leader urges US to do more to end ‘atrocities’ in Gaza	1	Link
2023-11-14	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	"Indonesia appealed to the US to do more to stop the atrocities in Gaza," Widodo said following talks at the White House on Monday.	1	Link
2023-11-16	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday that a prolonged communications blackout could "provide cover for atrocities and breed impunity while further undermining humanitarian efforts and putting lives at risk".	1	Link
2023-11-17	7 October	BBC's own	Live page post	This morning, a funeral was held for 19-year-old soldier Noa Marciano - who was one of about 240 people kidnapped during the 7 October atrocities.	1	Link
2023-11-17	7 October	Quote	Report	The Green Party's co-leader, Carla Denyer, who is also a local councillor, collected the petition during the event and told the crowd: "[Hamas'] atrocities do not in any way justify the level of bombardment of civilians, including many Gazan children, that...	1	Link
2023-11-17	7 October	Paraphrase	Report	The letters condemn the atrocities carried out by Hamas during its surprise 7 October attack that killed around 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians.	1	Link
2023-11-18	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Kendall Gardner, a Jewish DPhil student at the University of Oxford, said: "The humanitarian situation in Gaza is an absolute atrocity.	1	Link
2023-11-20	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	"All countries, especially those that have close relations with Israel, must use all their influence and capabilities to urge Israel to stop its atrocities."	1	Link
2023-11-22	7 October	Quote	Report	Mr Heller has one wish. "Something of this magnitude should never happen again. The world must come together and ensure this awful atrocity should never happen, ever, ever again."	1	Link
2023-11-26	7 October	Quote	Live page post	Chikli, of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, continues: "The ideology of Hamas, which is the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, this ideology is extremely dangerous and we can see how this inspired the atrocities of 7 October - the massacre, the rape, the...	1	Link
2023-12-04	7 October	BBC, someone's view	Live page post	The process of gathering evidence is in itself traumatic - and there is anger that organisations like UN Women took so long so speak out about atrocities committed by Hamas on Israelis.	1	Link
2023-12-04	7 October	BBC's own, hedged	Report	There has been anger over the delay of some UN bodies to acknowledge claims of Hamas's sexual atrocities on 7 October.	1	Link
2023-12-04	7 October	Paraphrase	Report	UN Women issued a statement - eight weeks after the attacks - acknowledging accounts of gender-based atrocities.	1	Link
2023-12-05	7 October	Quote	Live page post	Addressing the nation, he said he expected all "civilised leaders, governments, nations to speak up against this atrocity".	1	Link
2023-12-05	7 October	Quote	Live page post	“I say to the women's rights organisations, to the human rights organisations: you've heard of the rape of Israeli women, horrible atrocities, sexual mutilation - where the hell are you?" he said.	1	Link
2023-12-05	7 October	Quote	Report	Last week, UN Women put out a statement saying it "unequivocally condemn[ed] the brutal attacks by Hamas" and was "alarmed by the numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities and sexual violence during those attacks".	1	Link
2023-12-05	7 October	Quote	Report	"This is the most documented atrocity humanity has known," she told me.	1	Link
2023-12-06	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	"The pattern of attacks that target or impact on civilian infrastructure raises serious concerns about Israel's compliance with international humanitarian law and significantly raises the risk of atrocity crimes," the agency said in a strongly worded...	1	Link
2023-12-06	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live post headline	UN human rights chief warns of 'atrocity crimes' in Gaza	1	Link
2023-12-06	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	Volker Turk was speaking in Geneva, where he told journalists that in the conflict in Gaza there was a heightened risk of "atrocity crimes".	1	Link
2023-12-06	Both sides	Quote	Live page post	He also warned both Israel and Hamas leaders against what he said were "dehumanising statements" which could be seen by a competent court as "incitement to atrocity crimes".	1	Link
2023-12-08	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	"By continuing to provide Israel with weapons and diplomatic cover as it commits atrocities, including collectively punishing the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, the US risks complicity in war crimes."	1	Link
2023-12-08	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	He says that Israel conducts its war "through atrocities," and that "hundreds of people will be killed by this time tomorrow."	1	Link
2023-12-08	7 October	Quote	Live page post	They say the UK could not "vote in favour of a resolution that does not condemn the atrocities Hamas committed" against Israelis on 7 October.	1	Link
2023-12-08	7 October	Quote	Live page post	He told the UN that "a ceasefire cements Hamas’s control of Gaza" and sends a mesage that "Hamas is forgiven for their deliberate atrocities".	1	Link
2023-12-08	7 October	BBC, someone's view	Report	But after a few days, she decided that she couldn't allow the atrocities to change her.	1	Link
2023-12-09	7 October	Quote	Live page post	The UK, its key ally, said the resolution “not condemn the atrocities Hamas committed” against Israelis on 7 October.	1	Link
2023-12-10	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	“Our main concern is not the day after,” he said, in comments quoted by Al-Jazeera. “It is today. We want the stop of atrocities and genocide that (are) happening today.”	1	Link
2023-12-17	7 October	BBC's own	Report	The atrocities committed in their raid into southern Israel on 7 October were gratuitously cruel and violent.	1	Link
2023-12-22	7 October	BBC's own	Report	These are just two examples - viewed millions of times each - showcasing the social media schism in the Israel-Gaza war that has brought denial of atrocities and human suffering to the forefront of online debate about the conflict.	1	Link
2023-12-22	7 October	BBC's own	Report	On the other hand, while supporters of the Palestinians do not have a single term used to deny atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October in Israel, posts making such claims routinely get millions of views on social media.	1	Link
2023-12-22	Unclear	BBC's own	Report	False narratives about "crisis actors" or atrocity denial are not new to those who study disinformation.	1	Link
2023-12-28	7 October	Paraphrase	Live page post	Soldiers explicitly said that cases of ill-treatment monitored by the UN were in retaliation for the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October.	1	Link
2024-01-03	7 October	BBC's own	Report	The masterminds of Hamas's 7 October atrocities in southern Israel, including Yahya Sinwar, are still believed to be hiding somewhere in Gaza despite Israel's turbo-charged manhunt.	1	Link
2024-01-05	7 October	BBC's own	Report	At a huge exhibition centre in the city of Tel Aviv, Tal Shimoni - a survivor of the Nova Festival atrocity - shows me around an incredible installation, an almost complete reproduction of the Nova site.	1	Link
2024-01-07	7 October	Quote	Report	"The overwhelming majority of the Palestinians do not believe Hamas has committed any atrocities, the overwhelming majority has not seen any videos that show atrocities.	2	Link
2024-01-11	Other	Paraphrase	Report	On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "the hypocrisy of South Africa screams to the heavens" - criticising the country for failing to respond to atrocities in Syria and Yemen committed by "partners of Hamas".	1	Link
2024-01-20	Other	Quote	Report	"The attacks in Iraq and Syria were retaliation for the general as well as the atrocity in Kerman," explains Prof Marandi.	1	Link
2024-01-26	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	Human Rights Watch has described the ICJ's ruling as a "landmark decision", saying that it "puts Israel and its allies on notice that immediate action is needed to prevent genocide and further atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza".	1	Link
2024-01-30	7 October	Quote	Report	Former minister Theresa Villiers told the Commons "bringing forward and accelerating unilateral recognition of Palestinian state would be to reward Hamas' atrocities".	1	Link
2024-02-01	7 October	BBC complaints team	BBC Editorial Complaints Unit finding	The ECU did not agree therefore that it was incumbent on the presenter to ask if he condemned the atrocities of 7 October or if he thought Israel was justified to attack Hamas militants, as the complainant suggested.	1	Link
2024-02-12	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	In a clear warning to Israel over its obligations under international law, Türk said fighting in Rafah risked "further atrocity crimes".	1	Link
2024-02-20	7 October	Quote	Report	In response to the prince, Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said: "Israelis of course want to see an end to the fighting as soon as possible, and that will be possible once the 134 hostages are released, and once the Hamas terror army threatening to...	1	Link
2024-02-21	7 October	BBC's own	Report	The longer answer is Labour is a party that aspires to be in government in a matter of months, and has found itself in some awkwardness at the very least ever since the Hamas atrocities in Israel in October.	1	Link
2024-03-01	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"Oxfam does not support US air drops to Gaza, which would mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior US officials whose policies are contributing to the ongoing atrocities and risk of famine in Gaza," the charity group said.	1	Link
2024-03-01	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"Oxfam does not support US airdrops to Gaza, which would mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior US officials whose policies are contributing to the ongoing atrocities and risk of famine in Gaza," the charity group said on Friday.	1	Link
2024-03-03	7 October	Quote	Report	There is also "massive disgust at what is going on in Gaza at the moment, with obviously the understanding that the atrocity that began all of this was the particular set of events on 7 October".	1	Link
2024-03-08	7 October	Quote	Report	It says: "Agency staff members have been subject to threats and coercion by the Israeli authorities while in detention, and pressured to make false statements against the Agency, including that the Agency has affiliations with Hamas and that UNRWA staff...	1	Link
2024-03-11	Other	Quote	Report	Somehow, step by step, that leads to atrocity."	1	Link
2024-03-23	Other	Paraphrase	Live page post	It accuses the Kremlin of atrocities against Muslim people in military campaigns in Chechnya and Syria, as well as in the Soviet-era invasion of Afghanistan.	1	Link
2024-03-25	Other	BBC's own	Standfirst	The assault on Crocus City Hall is not the first atrocity believed to be carried out by the Islamic State-Khorasan group.	1	Link
2024-03-29	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"I hope and pray that our calls are answered and there is an end to the atrocities we are seeing taking place in Gaza."	1	Link
2024-04-04	7 October	Paraphrase	Live page post	They say that in the IDF’s pursuit of Hamas, in response to the atrocities committed on 7 October, it has killed so many civilians and wreaked so much destruction on Gaza that it has created an entire generation of future fighters who will now be intent on...	1	Link
2024-04-07	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"Obviously, Israel suffered a terrible atrocity in the hands of Hamas but it went to war instead of [having] a strategy and political objective which is achievable.	1	Link
2024-04-07	7 October	BBC's own	Live page post	The atrocities of 7 October shocked Israel to its core.	1	Link
2024-04-07	7 October	BBC's own	Report	Opinion polls show strong support among Palestinians for the attacks on 7 October, though many deny the evidence that Hamas committed atrocities.	1	Link
2024-04-15	Other	Quote	Live page post	Conservative MP Alicia Kearns asks the prime minister whether he will commit to launch "a new consensus on Iran with our allies, and a new effort with combined diplomatic, military and wider expert areas to limit the extent of the atrocities of Iran".	1	Link
2024-04-24	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"What we cannot allow, in this current situation where we have seen in Gaza numerous grave human rights violations, many of them potentially war crimes, and where we have raised alarm of potential atrocity crimes, that this becomes another blip.	1	Link
2024-05-06	Israel in Gaza	Paraphrase	Live page post	The charity says Israel's actions should prompt immediate action from the international community to prevent more atrocities.	1	Link
2024-05-07	7 October	Paraphrase	Live page post	From there, he drew a line to people who are also forgetting the atrocities of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel.	1	Link
2024-05-14	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Mr Shoukry asserted that Israel was "solely responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe currently endured by Palestinians in Gaza", which he said was "a direct result of indiscriminate Israeli atrocities committed against the Palestinians for more than...	1	Link
2024-05-16	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Addressing the court at the start of the hearing, South African barrister Vaughan Lowe KC said that "evidence of appalling crimes and atrocities is literally being destroyed and bulldozed, in effect wiping the slate clean for those who've committed these...	1	Link
2024-05-20	Both sides	Quote	Live page post	A spokesperson for Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organisation with headquarters in New York City, says the decision taken by prosecutor Karim Khan is a "principled first step" which "opens the door to those responsible for the atrocities committed...	1	Link
2024-05-20	Other	BBC's own	Live page post	Prior to his election at the ICC, he led a UN investigation that targeted perpetrators of IS atrocities in Iraq and served as an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN.	1	Link
2024-05-20	Both sides	Quote	Live page post	So I support the historic step that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken to bring justice to victims of atrocities in Israel and Palestine."	1	Link
2024-05-24	Other	Paraphrase	Report	It called for sanctions against those responsible for the atrocities, including the RSF leader, Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti.	1	Link
2024-07-04	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	My family did not flee a war-torn country to come here as refugees for me to remain silent when I see atrocities inflicted on innocent people,” she said during a press conference on her resignation.	1	Link
2024-07-11	Israel in Gaza	Paraphrase	Report	He said councillors from all political colours, and from all across Bradford, had spoken out against the atrocities in Gaza.	1	Link
2024-07-23	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"The idea of the man responsible for these atrocities being allowed to come here, channels my rage," she said.	1	Link
2024-08-19	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"The Scottish government has been consistent in our unequivocal condemnation of the atrocities we have witnessed in Gaza," he said.	1	Link
2024-08-20	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	In a statement released on Monday announcing that further meetings with Israeli officials would be suspended, Mr Robertson said the government had been "consistent in our unequivocal condemnation of the atrocities we have witnessed in Gaza".	1	Link
2024-08-26	7 October	Paraphrase	Report	The BBC contacted both broadcasters but received no response. Yehuda Schlesinger replied, highlighting the atrocities of 7 October.	1	Link
2024-09-26	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Meanwhile, Qatar joined calls for a de-escalation with government spokesman Majed al-Ansari saying the country had received "horrific reports from Lebanon about targeting whole families, in a way that is similar to the atrocities in Gaza".	1	Link
2024-09-26	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	Qatar says it is receiving "horrific reports from Lebanon about targeting whole families, in a way that is similar to the atrocities in Gaza".	1	Link
2024-10-06	7 October	Quote	Report	He said: “When the event happened a year ago the news was all about the terrible atrocities that happened in Israel, then after about a week people started forgetting about what happened on 7 October."	1	Link
2024-10-14	7 October	Quote	Report	Describing the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October as the "worst atrocities committed against Jews since the Holocaust", the council accused Plaid of lending "justification to these heinous acts of terror".	1	Link
2024-10-15	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	The UN's humanitarian affairs agency said in a statement that “people burned to death” and “atrocities must end”, while a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council called the footage “disturbing”.	1	Link
2024-10-17	7 October	BBC's own	Standfirst	Israel had hunted the architect of the 7 October atrocities for more than a year. A chance encounter in Rafah got him.	1	Link
2024-10-17	7 October	BBC's own	Report	He had undoubtedly felt the Israeli pressure growing as other Hamas leaders, such as Mohammad Dief and Ismail Haniyeh, were killed, and as Israel destroyed the infrastructure he had used to prosecute the atrocities of 7 October.	1	Link
2024-10-17	7 October	Quote	Live page post	He says the Hamas leader was killed by Israeli soldiers today, describing him as the "mastermind behind the massacre and atrocities" of 7 October.	1	Link
2024-10-18	Israel in Gaza	Paraphrase	Live page post	A senior UN Official has warned that “history will ask questions” about what the international community was doing when atrocities were happening in Gaza.	1	Link
2024-10-20	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	On Saturday, the UN's top humanitarian official, Joyce Msuya, said that Palestinians in northern Gaza are enduring "unspeakable horrors" and called for these "atrocities" to stop.	1	Link
2024-10-20	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	The UN's top humanitarian official, Joyce Msuya, said on Saturday that Palestinians in northern Gaza are enduring "unspeakable horrors" and called for these "atrocities" to stop.	1	Link
2024-10-25	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	We are facing what could amount to atrocity crimes, including potentially extending to crimes against humanity.”	1	Link
2024-10-28	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	We are facing what could amount to atrocity crimes, including potentially extending to crimes against humanity," Mr Türk added.	1	Link
2024-11-08	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	The report said it found "unprecedented" levels of international law violations, raising concerns about "war crimes and other possible atrocity crimes".	1	Link
2024-11-21	7 October	BBC, someone's view	Report	Israelis are appalled that, in their eyes, the world seems to have already forgotten or overlooked the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October last year.	1	Link
2024-12-03	7 October	Quote	Report	He went on to say: "If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these...	1	Link
2024-12-03	7 October	Quote	Report	"If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against...	1	Link
2024-12-18	Other	BBC's own	Standfirst	Dr Jim Swire hopes that an upcoming Sky TV series on the atrocity will spark fresh public debate.	1	Link
2024-12-18	Other	BBC's own	Report	The father of a Lockerbie bombing victim has called on Sir Keir Starmer to publish everything the UK government knows about the atrocity.	1	Link
2025-02-06	Other	Quote	Report	It pledged to continue "providing justice and hope to millions of innocent victims of atrocities across the world".	1	Link
2025-02-06	Unclear	Paraphrase	Report	The court's technical and IT operations - including evidence gathering - could also be affected. Observers have voiced fears that victims of alleged atrocities may hesitate to testify.	1	Link
2025-02-21	7 October	Quote	Report	"Afterwards, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities," he said, without giving specifics about the alleged injuries. Hamas has not yet responded to these accusations.	1	Link
2025-03-19	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"They're saying to us: What does it say about our values that we can't stop a 21st Century atrocity happening before our eyes - and not just happening, but being cheered on before our eyes?"	1	Link
2025-04-11	Other	Paraphrase	Report	Once the fighting stops, the thinking goes, both soldiers and civilians will remember whether those on the other side obeyed international law, or whether they committed atrocities.	1	Link
2025-04-14	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"His detention is an attempt to silence those who speak out against the atrocities in Gaza. It is also unconstitutional."	1	Link
2025-04-20	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"Without accountability, we risk continuing to watch atrocities unfolding, and the norms designed to protect us all, eroding."	1	Link
2025-05-13	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	So there is absolutely no doubt that we are talking about massive atrocities.	1	Link
2025-05-13	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	We have under our watch let a massive atrocity unfold."	1	Link
2025-05-13	7 October	Quote	Live page post	He says "all civilised people must condemn the October 7 atrocities against Israel", claiming it would never had happened had he been president at the time.	1	Link
2025-05-16	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Undergraduate Logan Rozos told the crowd on Wednesday that he condemned the "atrocities currently happening in Palestine", drawing cheers and some boos.	1	Link
2025-05-17	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"Atrocities are becoming a new norm, under our watch, making the unbearable bearable with indifference," he said.	1	Link
2025-05-19	7 October	Quote	Report	Netanyahu responded with a statement accusing the three leaders of asking Israel to "end a defensive war for our survival", saying that, by doing so, they were "offering a huge prize" for the 7 October attacks while "inviting more such atrocities".	1	Link
2025-05-20	7 October	Quote	Report	Netanyahu has hit back, saying the "leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities".	1	Link
2025-05-20	7 October	Quote	Report	Netanyahu hit back at the suggestion: "By asking Israel to end a defensive war for our survival before Hamas terrorists on our border are destroyed and by demanding a Palestinian state, the leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for...	1	Link
2025-05-20	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"By asking Israel to end a defensive war for our survival before Hamas terrorists on our border are destroyed, and by demanding a Palestinian state, the leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on...	1	Link
2025-05-30	7 October	Paraphrase	Report	The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused Mr Fletcher of ignoring Hamas's atrocities and echoing their propaganda. "It's not humanitarian work, it's blood libel," the ministry said at the time.	1	Link
2025-06-01	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	"With competing narratives and disinformation campaigns in full gear, international media must be allowed into Gaza to independently report on the ongoing atrocities including this morning’s heinous crime," he adds.	1	Link
2025-06-04	Other	BBC's own	Report	Two weeks later, US President Donald Trump announced plans to lift decade-old sanctions on Syria, imposed in response to atrocities committed by forces loyal to Assad during the civil war.	1	Link
2025-06-08	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Prof Blatman, who is the son of Holocaust survivors, says that Israeli politicians have for many years used the memory of the Holocaust as "a tool to attack governments and public opinion in the world, and warn them that accusing Israel of any atrocities...	1	Link
2025-06-09	7 October	Paraphrase	Live page post	In a post on X, he accused Greta Thunberg and other activists onboard the Madleen of supporting Hamas, adding that it was "appropriate" for them to see what atrocities Hamas had committed "against women, the elderly, and children, and against whom Israel...	1	Link
2025-06-19	Israel in Iran	Quote	Report	He said US involvement would turn the conflict into a "quagmire", continue aggression and delay an end to the "brutal atrocities".	1	Link
2025-06-19	Israel in Iran	Quote	Report	He said US involvement would be "hell for the whole region", that would turn the conflict into a "quagmire", continue aggression, and delay an end to the "brutal atrocities".	1	Link
2025-06-30	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"The atrocities we are witnessing in Gaza are precisely because governments don't think the rules should apply to them," said Yasmine Ahmed, UK director of Human Rights Watch.	1	Link
2025-06-30	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"Judicial deference to the executive in this case has left the Palestinians in Gaza without access to the protections of international law, despite the government and the court acknowledging that there is a serious risk that UK equipment might be used to...	1	Link
2025-07-08	7 October	Paraphrase	Report	That includes an evidentiary framework to categorise information based on its proximity to incidents and its evidentiary value, and a legal framework for establishing criminal responsibility for atrocities committed during mass attacks, even when an...	1	Link
2025-07-17	Other	BBC's own, hedged	Report	All sides - Druze, Bedouin and government forces - have been accused of atrocities.	1	Link
2025-07-19	Other	BBC's own, hedged	Report	All sides are accused of atrocities.	1	Link
2025-07-19	Other	Quote	Report	"And they must hold accountable and bring to justice anyone guilty of atrocities including those in their own ranks," the top US diplomat added.	1	Link
2025-07-27	7 October	Quote	Report	But she said now was not the right time to recognise a Palestinian state as it would "reward" Hamas after "carrying out one of the worst atrocities in recent memory".	1	Link
2025-07-28	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Mr Fletcher also warned that UN teams on the ground believed the Israeli military's pauses would only last a week or so, which he said would be "clearly insufficient when before our eyes we're seeing this 21st Century atrocity on the ground".	1	Link
2025-07-28	Other	Paraphrase	Report	In a statement, the Zamfara government condemned the killings calling them "barbaric and cowardly" and declared that such atrocities added to its resolve to wipe out terrorism from the state.	1	Link
2025-07-28	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	Asked how long the humanitarian pause will last to allow more aid in, he says he's heard "from the team on the ground" that pauses will last "a week or so", which he says is "clearly insufficient" when they're seeing a "21st Century atrocity".	1	Link
2025-07-30	7 October	Quote	Report	"Recognising a Palestinian state in the aftermath of the October 7 terrorist atrocities sends the wrong message to the world," the opposition party said in a statement.	1	Link
2025-07-30	7 October	Quote	Report	"Hamas is a vile terrorist organisation that has committed appalling atrocities.	1	Link
2025-08-02	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	'Terrible atrocities'	1	Link
2025-08-02	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"I have seen reports of terrible atrocities which have the character of being genocide.	1	Link
2025-08-03	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Sydney-based activist organisation Palestine Action Group lodged a notice of intention for the march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge last Sunday, in response to what it called the "atrocity" in Gaza.	1	Link
2025-08-07	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	The UN human rights chief Volker Türk also warned that "further escalation will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes".	1	Link
2025-08-08	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	The UN's human rights chief Volker Türk says "the war in Gaza must end now" and warns that further escalation "will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes".	1	Link
2025-08-08	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	UN human rights chief Volker Turk warned that further escalation would "result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes".	1	Link
2025-08-08	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	The plan has been met with heavy condemnation by much of the international community, with United Nations (UN) human rights chief Volker Türk saying it would "result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless...	1	Link
2025-08-08	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk says "the war in Gaza must end now" and warns that further escalation "will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes".	1	Link
2025-09-09	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"I think he needs to explain how, when we have seen so much evidence of the atrocities being perpetrated by the Israeli army, how he can possibly claim that the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) is the most moral army in the world.	1	Link
2025-09-09	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Live page post	"End the impunity before atrocities become the new norm," he writes.	1	Link
2025-09-19	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour called the US's decision "deeply regrettable and painful", saying it had prevented the Security Council from "playing its rightful role in the face of these atrocities".	1	Link
2025-09-22	7 October	Quote	Report	Jordan Bardella, of the far-right National Rally, said it was a "mistake, while Hamas still holds Israeli hostages", and he pointed out that it amounted to "rewarding the atrocities committed on 7 October [2023], during the deadliest attack ever known by...	1	Link
2025-09-22	7 October	Quote	Report	Taoiseach Micheál Martin said 7 October was "a heinous atrocity of young music followers going to a concert, and they were mowed down".	1	Link
2025-09-22	7 October	Quote	Report	Gavin also criticised his opponent for not acknowledging the "atrocities and horrific crimes that Hamas committed over two years ago".	1	Link
2025-09-23	7 October	Paraphrase	Live page post	Recognising Palestinian statehood, as several Western countries attending the UN assembly have done in recent days, would be a "reward" for the atrocities carried out by Hamas, he said.	1	Link
2025-09-23	7 October	Paraphrase	Live page post	Trump says "this would be a reward" for Hamas's atrocities.	1	Link
2025-09-24	7 October	BBC executive, quoted	Report	Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News, said: "It is almost two years since October 7th when the world witnessed Hamas' atrocities.	1	Link
2025-09-24	Other	BBC's own	Report	It features footage of historic events and atrocities captured by journalists.	1	Link
2025-10-03	Other	Quote	Report	Defend Our Juries member, Sir Jonathon Porritt, told the BBC that he had "no doubt" that "everyone taking part in the silent vigil today will demonstrate huge respect and real grief for those affected by the absolute atrocity at Heaton Park."	1	Link
2025-10-04	Unclear	Quote	Report	She added: "I think it's possible for us to be compassionate and open our hearts to victims of multiple atrocities at one time."	1	Link
2025-10-05	Unclear	Quote	Report	"We remember all subsequent atrocities since that original day," he added.	1	Link
2025-10-07	7 October	Quote	Report	"On the anniversary of the atrocities of October 7, students are once again planning protests," he said.	1	Link
2025-10-07	7 October	Quote	Live page post	"Today, on the anniversary of the atrocities of October 7, students are once again planning protests.	1	Link
2025-10-07	7 October	Quote	Live page post	And, of course, today marks the second anniversary of the atrocities of the 7 October massacre in Israel, carried out by Hamas terrorists.	1	Link
2025-10-09	Unclear	Quote	Report	But he stressed that "it is now time to engage in dialogue, to assist the civilian population, and to look to the future with hope, but also with justice and with remembrance so that the atrocities experienced are never repeated".	1	Link
2025-10-14	7 October	Quote	Report	He told MPs: "This move, taken alongside our allies France, Canada, Australia and others, helped lead to the historic New York declaration, where for the first time the entire Arab League condemned the atrocities of October 7, urged Hamas to disarm and,...	1	Link
2025-10-25	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Connolly is an outspoken supporter of Palestine and frequently speaks about the "genocide" in Gaza and criticises "atrocities" committed by Israel.	1	Link
2025-11-29	Other	BBC's own	Headline	How Trump's pledge to tackle Sudan atrocities could play out	1	Link
2025-11-29	Other	Quote	Report	He later posted on social media that "tremendous atrocities are taking place in Sudan.	1	Link
2025-11-29	Other	BBC's own	Report	Hemedti publicly offers compromise. But the atrocities of his troops tell a different story and few people of the cities they have ransacked will contemplate living under their rule.	1	Link
2025-12-16	Other	Quote	Report	In a follow-up post on Monday, Mr Vince said he had not intended to "excuse or legitimise terrorism, or any form of racism", adding that "what happened at Bondi beach is an atrocity".	1	Link
2026-01-12	Other	Quote	Report	"In contrast, I was cancelled because my presence and identity as a Palestinian was deemed 'culturally insensitive' and linked to the Bondi atrocity," her statement continued.	1	Link
2026-02-09	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Chris Sidoti, an Australian human rights lawyer and a member of the UN commission that wrote the report, on Thursday called for Herzog to be arrested, arguing the immunity traditionally granted to heads of state should not apply to "atrocity crimes" such...	1	Link
2026-02-27	7 October	Quote	Report	Israeli operating licences can be lost through actions such as "delegitimisation of the State of Israel, legal campaigns targeting soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Holocaust denial, denial of the 7 October atrocities or documented cooperation...	1	Link
2026-02-28	Unclear	Quote	Live page post	Put to him that it was understood the school was near an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base, he replies: "That's simply a way of normalising atrocity and atrocious crime."	1	Link
2026-03-01	Other	Quote	Report	"There were a lot of atrocities went on, and what kept us going was the GAA," he said.	1	Link
2026-03-06	Other	Quote	Report	Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi called it an "atrocity at sea" and said the US would "bitterly regret" the attack.	1	Link
2026-03-09	Other	Quote	Report	Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said last week the US had "perpetrated an atrocity at sea, 2,000 miles away from Iran's shores" and that the warship was "struck in international waters without warning."	1	Link
2026-03-17	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	"So, if you want to talk about violence, if you want to talk about atrocities, then point the finger to the state of Israel.	1	Link
2026-06-05	7 October	Quote	Report	"Elrayess isn't just defending a proscribed terrorist group, she is actively whitewashing atrocities," they said.	1	Link
2026-06-05	7 October	Quote	Report	"Arwa Elrayess has chosen to minimise mass atrocities, argue that terrorist actions are 'proportional', and laud a proscribed terrorist organisation."	1	Link
2026-07-21	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	He also warned that the killing of civilians "raises concerns of continuing violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes and other possible atrocity crimes in Gaza".	1	Link
2026-08-06	Israel in Gaza	Quote	Report	Kaiss said: "Israeli forces' continued killing of journalists shows a brazen willingness to commit atrocities without any fear of consequences."	1	Link
2026-08-08	7 October	Quote	Report	Eisenberg said: "The money that flows from sham charities like the one described in the complaint fuels Hamas's terrorist activities, including the atrocities the group committed on October 7".	1	Link
2026-08-16	7 October	Quote	Report	When asked about his meeting with Hamas, Kushner replied: "They said all the right things - but obviously it's very, very hard to trust a terrorist organisation that committed these terrible atrocities.	1	Link
2026-09-09	7 October	Quote	Live page post	He says Hamas's 7 October attacks on Israel were a "murderous atrocity" and that the group can play "no role in the future of Gaza".	1	Link

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Every use of atrocity or atrocities in the BBC pages we readCSV, 260 rows
Whose words: every use of atrocity in the BBC pages we read, by subjectCSV, 2 rows
Year by year: the BBC's own words against everyone else'sCSV, 4 rows
Who else the BBC calls perpetrators of atrocities, in its own wordsCSV, 6 rows

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BBC News pages and live pages, 7 October 2023 to 15 October 2026, read between 14:00 and 16:45 UK time on 15 October 2026; the pages quoted were captured between 4.38pm and 4.44pm and archived on the Wayback Machine the same afternoon. BBC complaint response on its Israel and Gaza coverage, 16 October 2023. Gaza Ministry of Health death toll, 74,392 killed to 14 October 2026, via the Tech for Palestine dataset. UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, September 2025. All times are UK time.