War Crimes
1980
1980-12-02 In El Salvador groups of U.S. troops assaulted and killed Catholic nuns and priests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_murders_of_U.S._missionaries_in_El_Salvador
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCyLgOZNee4&t=10s
1982
1982-03-23 Self-proclaimed born-again Pentecostal Efrain Rios Montt carried out one of the largest genocides against the Maya, with financial backing from the US. He was convicted of genocide in 2013. Ronald Regan called him “a man of great personal integrity”. Jerry Falwell supported him, and Pat Robinson interviewed him on the 700 Club. Christianity Today’s Luis Palau said, “It’s great to have a Christian president as a model…the hand of God appears to be on him”.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/guatemalan-genocide-case
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/13/world/special-envoy-praises-guatemala.html
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=hist_faculty
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pat-robertson-obituary/
LEARN SOMETHING NEW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePRA9yVdQE&list=WL&index=9&t=519s
2024 July
2024-07-01 Trump argued that presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. In 2026, he invoked the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling in arguing for protection regarding “official acts.”
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11194
https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-v-us-great-power-comes-great-immunity
2025 February
2025-02-28 Pete Hegseth dismantled civilian casualty mitigation programs ahead of the Iran war by dismantling the Civilian Mitigation and Response Action Plan. On the first day of the war in Iran, the US launched a Tomahawk missile into an all-girls school and killed nearly 200 children. The US denied allegations of launching the missile, and Trump even claimed Iran might have bombed themselves during a Mar-a-Lago press conference on March 9th.
https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-israel-announces-strike-2026-02-28/
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/why-trump-war-iran-benefits
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/middleeast/maps-iran-tehran-attack-vis-intl
https://www.cfr.org/articles/gauging-the-impact-of-massive-u-s-israeli-strikes-on-iran
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/02/28/special_report_us_israel_launch_unprovoked
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/us-civilian-casualties-iran/686292/
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/us/politics/hegseth-pentagon-civilian-harm.html
2025 July
2025-07-13 The United States and Israel pursued joint efforts to relocate Palestinians to Sudan or Libya.
2025 August
2025-08-30 The U.S. Navy sank a Venezuelan vessel in international waters.
2025 September
2025-09-06 JD Vance posted on social media, “killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military”. Brian Krassenstein replied, “killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime”. JD Vance responded, “I don’t give a shit what you call it”. Vance also wrote, “Democrats:let’s send your kids to die in Russia…Republicans:actually let’s protect our people from the scum of the earth”.
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1964341094226743787
2025-09-10 News reports alleged there were survivors to the Venezuelan boat strike, and that the U.S. turned back to finish the job. If this was true it would be considered a breach of Rules of Engagement and an act of murder.
2025-09-11 After a fact-finding mission, Democratic Senators Chris Van Holland and Jeff Merkley released a report accusing Israel of collective punishment and ethnic cleansing.
2025-09-16 The UN Independent International Commission issued a 72-page report condemning the Israeli government of violating 4-out-of-5 acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8641wv0n4go
2025-09-22 The Trump administration made plans to send $6B in arms sales to Israel including 30 Apache helicopters.
2025 October
2025-10-20 Israeli soldiers shot and killed 9-year-old Mohammad Bahjat Mohammad Hallaq in the head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWFsTrquPs
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQCH6GzDBDH/
2025 December
2025-12-10 Reuters reported that the Trump administration urged the International Criminal Court to amend the Rome Statute to shield Trump and senior officials from potential war-crimes investigations, while threatening sanctions if the ICC refused.
2026 January
2026-01-16 Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 2-year-old Palestinian baby in the head outside Jenin.
2026 February
2026-02-24 During the State of the Union Trump joked about U.S. strikes on Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean that killed hundreds of people, “We very seriously damaged their fishing industry, also. Also, nobody wants – nobody wants to go fishing anymore”.
https://stluciatimes.com/178617/2026/02/trump-acknowledges-us-campaign-has-damaged-fishing-industry/
2026 March
2026-03-24 The UN demanded Israel immediately release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, citing severe abuse and torture. Dr. Safiya had been detained by Israeli forces since December 27 2024 after refusing to abandon his patients during an Israeli raid at a hospital.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/release-dr-hussam-abu-safiya
2026-03-24 North Korean leaders accuse the US of crossing the line through state-sponsored terrorism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66pDCXujpfo&t=18s
2026-03-27 Israeli soldiers fatally shot 15-year-old Adma Dahman in the abdomen south of Bethlehem.
https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-child-in-bethlehem-3
2026-03-30 Trump publicly threatened to bomb desalination plants, electric plants and oil wells in Iran, which would be a war crime. When asked, Karoline Leavitt defended Trump, “Um, look – the president has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime at this moment in time as evidenced by the statement that you just read, that their best move is to make a deal – or else the United States armed forces has capabilities beyond their wildest imagination and the president is not afraid to use them…” When journalists pointed out war-crime concerns, Karoline Leavitt responded, “That’s not what I said, Garrett, and you’re saying the word potential for a reason, ‘cuz I’m sure some experts are telling you that in your ear to try to ask me that question. Of course, this administration and the United States armed forces will always act within the confines of the law, but with respect to achieving the full objectives of Operation Epic Fury, President Trump is going to move forward unabated, and he expected – expects – the Iranian regime to make a deal with the administration”.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/leavitt-melts-down-after-being-quizzed-on-trump-war-crimes/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7147083
https://www.dw.com/en/iran-war-trump-threatens-to-blow-up-desalination-plants/live-76586932
2026 April
2026-04-02 Trump proudly posted the U.S. bombing of a civilian suspension bridge in Tehran, which killed 8 people and wounded 95.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2dxrtOgvEY
2026-04-05 Trump wrote on TruthSocial, “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6GRMdn8ZD4&list=WL&index=3&t=59s
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/05/nx-s1-5774368/iran-war-updates
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/trump-iran-threats-politician-reactions
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg0q6wdzp1o
https://time.com/article/2026/04/05/trump-power-plants-iran-hormuz/
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116351998782539414
https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2040823145251090462
2026-04-07 Ro Khanna and Martha MacCallum argued over Trump’s threat to exterminate the Iranian civilization.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/destroying-90-million-people-ro-204813913.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DTG7IEbHjM&list=WL&index=7
2026-04-07 Trump threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight” unless Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk7xgkzvzo
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c0krp3mpxg5o
2026-04-09 In defense of Trump’s “whole civilization will die” tweet, Karoline Leavitt told the press, “The President absolutely has the moral high ground over the Iranian terrorist regime, and for you to even suggest otherwise is frankly insulting,” and “..so it was a very strong threat that led to results, and as the Secretary of War stated at the Pentagon this morning, it was not an empty threat by any means. The Pentagon had a target list that they were ready to hit go on at 8PM last night…”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Gy6lLRu6U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGwVZWFh_Dk
https://www.trtworld.com/article/67984187584e
2026-04-09 Israeli soldiers shot and killed 9-year-old girl Ritaj Rihan in the head in front of her classmates in Bethlehia.
2026-04-13 The U.S. military struck another vessel in the Pacific, killing two people. The Pentagon did not provide any evidence the vessel was involved in narcotics trafficking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ZKsiMUAyY
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/us-military-boat-strike-eastern-pacific
2026-04-16 House Democrats introduced articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth for high crimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/15/democrats-pete-hegseth-impeachment
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-hegseth-impeachment-articles-house-democrats/
https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-faces-impeachment-threat-full-list-of-sponsors-11835492
2026-04-19 Trump wrote, “the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116431297579272777
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/04/19/iran-war-updates-trump-talks–live/89685600007/
2026-04-20 Hungary’s newly elected Prime Minister Peter Magyar declared his government would be legally obligated to detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he enters Hungarian territory while still subject to an international criminal court arrest warrant.
https://www.politico.eu/article/peter-magyar-hungary-would-arrest-benjamin-netanyahu-israel/
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-893675
2026-04-21 Amnesty International’s annual Global Human Rights report described the leaders of Israel, Russia, and the United States as “voracious predators” pursuing economic and political domination, citing the Iran war, genocide, violence in Lebanon, and the Gaza conflict
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol10/0320/2026/en/
2026-04-23 Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to “shoot and kill” Iranian boats.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116454087460626531
https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-24-2026
https://time.com/article/2026/04/23/trump-orders-us-navy-shoot-kill-boats-strait-hormuz-iran-war/
2026-04-23 Israeli soldiers shot and killed 15-year-old Yousef Sameh Ishtayyeh during a raid in Nablus West Bank.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2641142/middle-east
2026-04-24 Israeli forces continued their killings in Gaza despite a ceasefire.
2026-04-26 The U.S. struck another boat, claiming once again without merit it was transporting narcotics.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/us-three-killed-boat-alleged-narco-eastern-pacific
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/27/us/video/us-strikes-alleged-drug-boat-ldn-digvid-vrtc
2026 May
2026-05-01 After Trump falsely claimed he didn’t need Congressional approval to continue the war in Iran the Pentagon renamed Operation Epic Fury to Operation Sledgehammer to circumvent the 60-day limit under the War Powers Act.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXzkCYERom0/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-project-freedom-has-become-project-confusion.html
2026-05-03 Israel displaced residents from ten Lebanese towns and killed 2,659 civilians in Lebanon since March.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQi7zttRc80&t=7s
2026-05-03 Iran executed 3 protestors. According to some reports, Iran carried out over 600 executions within the first three months of 2026.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/04/iran-executes-men-january-anti-regime-protests
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-executions-anti-government-protests/
https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/04/tehran-regime-executes-three-protesters-one-without-evidence
2026-05-04 Captured activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla reported that Israeli forces subjected detainees to beatings and torture so severe that captives were passing out.
2026-05-04 Israel carried out separate attacks in Gaza killing three Palestinians and leaving several others badly injured. They also shot 26-year-old Naif Smaro in the head during a raid in Nablus as he was dropping his wife off at the hospital to give birth to their first child. During the raid at least 4 others including 2 children were struck by ammunition.
TIMESTAMP 2:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmFI8zifRY8&list=WL&index=1&t=166s
2026-05-04 The U.S. struck another boat in the Caribbean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm8A5yBW2RM
https://apnews.com/article/drug-cartels-boat-strikes-military-trump-084ee7b1071dede21ea64afa9daf2ea2
2026-05-04 Iranian State Media reported the U.S. fired on small cargo boats and passengers, killing five civilians. U.S. Central Command claimed the vessels threatened commercial shipping.
https://www.aol.com/articles/iran-claims-5-civilians-killed-121333505.html
https://iranwire.com/en/news/152005-us-reports-strike-on-iranian-boats-tehran-calls-it-a-crime/
2026-05-05 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was hospitalized in critical condition after collapsing in an Iranian prison. She had reportedly been denied medical care despite prior heart attacks.
2026-05-07 Israel continued to kill Palestinians, block aid, and prevent reconstruction. Meanwhile, Gaza faced more health crises of sewage contamination, cooking with cardboard, no water or shelter, and rat infestation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q4bM3mkrbE&list=WL&index=3
2026-05-15 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand questioned US Central Command head Admiral Brad Cooper during a hearing for the Senate Arms Committee about why the US had bombed 22 schools and hospitals in Iran. Cooper denied any such bombings except indicating an investigation on the first school bombing when a US Tomahawk missile struck an all-girls school on day 1 of the war.
TIMESTAMP 1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hR8JDWzrkI&list=WL&index=2&t=9s
2026-05-22 Combat veteran and Democratic Representative Pat Ryan said, “These chickenhawk motherf*ckers are going to send us home for Memorial Day weekend – where I’m going to honor my fellow veterans that I served 27 months in combat with – and they are going to not even give an up or down vote on continuing this war almost 3 months in while Americans are paying almost $5 a gallon at the pumps. It is fucking pathetic. They use this procedural bullsh!t argument, and every American should be absolutely outraged about this. It’s a disgrace.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvb6YVTe_0s&list=WL&index=7&t=50s
2026 June
2026-06-03 Republicans joined Democrats in a 215–208 House vote to end the Iran conflict. The measure remained largely symbolic because it still required Senate approval and Trump’s signature.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-backs-resolution-curbing-trump-iran-war-powers-2026-06-03/
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5908560-iran-war-resolution-house/
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/03/nx-s1-5845102/house-iran-war-powers-vote
2026-06-10 Trump posted Iran was taking too long in negotiations and will have to “pay the price”. This was after U.S. strikes reportedly hit 2 reservoirs in Iran, leaving 20,000 people without access to drinking water.
TIMESTAMP 00:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7c1I6glks&list=WL&index=2
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/09/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel
2026-06-22 Kenneth Roth posted, “The summary execution of two more in an alleged drug boat brings the number of murders ordered by Trump to more than 210. There will come a day when he faces prosecution for these crimes.
https://x.com/KenRoth/status/2069015024660566376
2026-06-23 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said about atrocities in Sudan, “The imminent offensive against Alade in Sudan risks commission of serious international crimes and deepens the catastrophic impact on an already beleaguered civilian population”.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167752
2026-06-23 United Auto Workers voted to divest from Israel Bonds and issued a statement, “This is going to send a message to – not just the billionaire class – but to politicians and any single person who is not afraid to stand up to genocide, to Netanyahu, to the United States government, and will put the UAW again on the map for standing up for international solidarity”.
https://truthout.org/articles/united-auto-workers-vote-to-divest-from-israel-in-historic-victory/
2026 July
2026-07-02 The largest Presbyterian denomination in the US denounced Israel, declared Israel’s assault on Gaza a genocide, and divested from Palantir and GE for funding the genocide.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-presbyterian-church-votes-recognise-gaza-genocide
2026-07-07 CCTV footage released showed Israeli police throwing a stun grenade into a car then pushing the door shut on occupants.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/07/israeli-officer-stun-grenade-car-west-bank
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/world/video/israel-stun-grenade-qalandiya-vrtc
2026-07-13 The Trump administration vowed to disable the International Criminal Court.
https://www.startribune.com/trump-icc-war-crimes-human-rights-israel-gaza/601865813
2026-07-15 Netanyahu was booed and heckled out of Parliament as people shouted “shame”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkxC12sAbHA
2026-07-20 Mamdani said Netanyahu should be arrested when he visits New York this fall for the UN General Assembly.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/mamdani-arresting-netanyahu-visits-nyc-un-general-assembly
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/19/mamdani-netanyahu
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-zohran-mamdani/6527958/
2026-07-22 Mamdani urged an ICC arrest warrant on Netanyahu but made it very clear that he does not have authority to arrest him as the Mayor.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/22/zohran-mamdani-netanyahu-arrest-new-york
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/22/g-s1-134880/mamdani-nyc-netanyahu