Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member of that group, which could be an ethnic...

of major violations of international human rights law, including collective punishment, in its administration of the occupied Palestinian territories....

breeds distrust and isolation among their members. Historically, collective punishment is a sign of authoritarian tendencies in the institution or its...

is committed by one of its members, and it is a form of collective punishment. Kin punishment has been used as a form of extortion, harassment, and persecution...

engaging in collective punishment. On 18 October, UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated Hamas' attacks "cannot justify the collective punishment of the...

prisoners of war and surrendered combatants, indiscriminate attacks, collective punishment, starvation, the use of human shields, sexual violence and rape...

Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip has been described as a form of collective punishment and a serious violation of international humanitarian law. Israel's...

"open-air prison". The blockade was widely condemned as a form of collective punishment, while Israel defended it as necessary to stop Palestinian rocket...

for a crime or act committed by one of its members, justifying collective punishment. As a legal principle, it was derived from Germanic law in the Middle...

during World War II. In 2022, the company allegedly engaged in collective punishment of visibly Jewish passengers. After a small minority of Jewish passengers...