Hyderabad, Feb. 5 -- Two Human Rights Watch (HRW) employees, who constituted the entirety of the organisation's Israel and Palestine team, resigned after senior members blocked a report that stated Israel's actions to deny Palestinian refugees' right to return as a "crime against humanity."

According to the separate resignation letters accessed by the Jewish magazine Jewish Currents, Omar Shakir, who was the head of the team for almost a decade, and Milena Ansari, the assistant researcher, said the leadership's move to bar the report from its publication on December 4, 2025, does not represent HRW's general approval process.

It was proof that the organisation was prioritising fear of political backlash over the truth about international...