Luke Moffett
@lukemoffett.bsky.social
Prof of Human Rights and #IHL researching on redress, civilian harm, OSINT and AI, working on rewilding the north coast. Author of Algorithms of War (BUP 2026), Reparations and War (OUP 2023), and Justice for Victims at the ICC (2014).
Russian developers used AI to build ‘kamikaze’ attack drone software, Anthropic says www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Ukraine war briefing: Russian developers used AI to build ‘kamikaze’ attack drone software, Anthropic says
Anthropic also found that hackers used AI in attacks against targets in Ukrainian government, military and diplomatic sectors.
theguardian.com
The attack on World Central Kitchen highlights IDF's unlawful use of ‘guilt by association’ - fails to meet the requirements of the Geneva Conventions which could amount to the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population #ICC #Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic
theguardian.com
Deadly strike on Iranian wedding was likely a direct hit by a US munition, analysis shows #Iran www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Deadly strike on Iranian wedding was likely a direct hit by a US munition, analysis shows
An explosion that ripped through a wedding celebration in southern Iran likely resulted from a direct hit by a U.S. munition and not a ricochet off another target.
reuters.com
The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders” “The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.” theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
theintercept.com
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoVan Orden: "There's a lot of people that are complaining about the the missile strikes against these drug boats. Well, guess what? Those are saving Americans' lives."
Civilian harm in war can be shaped by decisions made long before fighting begins. Can IHL require states to consider civilian protection when locating military infrastructure in peacetime? Read full post → bit.ly/4d72FmP #IHL #CivilianProtection
Why a treaty on ‘killer robots’ would not stop ‘human safaris’ #Ukraine sluggerotoole.com/2026/08/20/w...
Why a treaty on ‘killer robots’ would not stop ‘human safaris’…
UN negotiators have until the end of this year to agree a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons, built around the principle that humans must stay in control of lethal decisions. In southern...
sluggerotoole.com
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by AI - An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of fully autonomous weaponry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
nytimes.com
Autonomous drones and the future of war in an AI-driven world 'If we cannot teach a drone to keep the laws of war, we will not teach a greater intelligence to keep faith with all we value.' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Autonomous drones and the future of war in an AI-driven world | Letter
Letter: Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe, writes military surgeon Dr Darren Mann
theguardian.com
i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science
Arms sales to Israel are slowing. But that’s only half the story By continuing to purchase weapons from Israel, foreign governments are sustaining the infrastructure, expertise, and financing it needs to wage its next war. By Sahar Vardi. www.972mag.com/israel-weapo...
Arms sales to Israel are slowing. But that's only half the story
By continuing to buy arms from Israel, foreign states are sustaining the infrastructure, expertise, and financing it needs to wage its next war.
972mag.com
Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth’s reversal on decades of progress on civilian harm mitigation and response procedures that has contributed to more civilian casualties, writes @maethompson.bsky.social, Kristine Beckerle, and @lukemoffett.bsky.social. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...
From Promise to Peril: The U.S. Retreat From Civilian Harm Response
Hegseth’s U-turn on decades of CHMR progress has contributed to more civilian casualties and left victims without access to repair and amends.
lawfaremedia.org
Automating civilian harm: On Israel’s use of the AI-enabled targeting system Lavender in Gaza and International Humanitarian Law media.licdn.com/dms/document...
‘We have nowhere to return to’: How Russia is seizing homes in occupied Ukraine - 34,002 properties belonging to Ukrainian citizens have been identified as seized in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine, something which is illegal under international law www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
How Russia is seizing homes in occupied Ukraine leaving many with 'nowhere to return to’ - BBC News
bbc.co.uk
New investigation from @bellingcat.com shows that Russian-made Shahed drones are being used on villages in Mali
Shahed-Type Drones Filmed During Mali Village Attacks - bellingcat
Bellingcat has geolocated footage showing Shahed-136 type kamikaze drones in operation in Mali.
bellingcat.com
💔🇺🇦 7 (!) children and their parents died in one house, from which only ashes remained - the terrible details of the "Zircon" strike by Russian bastards on a village near Kryvyi Rih, the Ministry of Social Policy reported.
looks fascinating - "we argue that the way the coalition previously counted civilian casualties erased certain harms from view, including the indirect, cumulative, and reverberating violence that civilians suffered during this conflict". www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
cambridge.org
From 400 hives to 35: the #Gaza beekeeper refusing to let war end his life’s work www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
From 400 hives to 35: the Gaza beekeeper refusing to let war end his life’s work
Ibrahim al-Dabba continues to care for his colonies despite losing his home and most of his hives and equipment
theguardian.com
⚡️ Russian attacks kill 14, injure over 160 across Ukraine over past day as guided bombs strike Zaporizhzhia.
Russian attacks kill 14, injure over 160 across Ukraine over past day as guided bombs strike Zaporizhzhia
A Russian guided aerial bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia killed three people and injured at least 78 others, local authorities reported. Six bombs struck four locations, hitting industrial and warehouse fa...
kyivindependent.com
Eugene Reavey to receive compensation £400,000 from police and MoD over murder of three brothers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reavey brothers: Eugene Reavey to receive compensation from police and MoD over murder of three brothers
Eugene Reavey's brothers were shot at the family home in County Armagh on 4 January 1976.
bbc.co.uk
Seven-year-old Abdiqadir was hit in a US airstrike, that killed 12 civilians including 8 children. Without a $750 operation, he may lose his ability to walk www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Seven-year-old Abdiqadir was hit in a US airstrike. Without a $750 operation, he may lose his ability to walk
Abdiqadir Salah was pierced by shrapnel in a bombing that killed 12 in Somalia. But as the US denies civilians were hurt they face no hope of compensation
theguardian.com
Growing risk that thousands buried in #Gaza’s rubble may never be identified, says Red Cross - at least 10,000 people are thought to be buried, according to health officials in Gaza, but it could be as high as 14,000 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Growing risk that thousands buried in Gaza’s rubble may never be identified, says Red Cross
Exclusive: Recovery efforts remain slow and passing of time makes it more likely they will be skeletonised
theguardian.com
NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...
Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility
nytimes.com
EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...
Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking
If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people?
theintercept.com
Hacking civilian cameras is now a recurring feature of war. Branko Ruzic walks through the existing statutory landscape to understand whether the government can compel remediation of the millions of exploitable devices already deployed across U.S. cities. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Remediation Gap in Civilian Camera Security
Civilian cameras are being hijacked in active conflicts. U.S. law freezes future imports but cannot touch the millions already deployed at home.
lawfaremedia.org
Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...
Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data
It's an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.
reuters.com
Just sharing in case it's of interest to anyone: the British Red Cross Summer School on International Humanitarian Law held in Cambridge University. I did it a few years ago & learnt a lot (I was the only journalist on the course but it is open to journalists). www.redcross.org.uk/about-us/wha...
Summer School on International Humanitarian Law
Find out about the British Red Cross Summer School on International Humanitarian Law and how to apply for a place.
redcross.org.uk
NEW: Airwars-supported cross-border investigation identifies victims of US boat strikes. Journalist collective reveals victims are labourers, fishermen, cab drivers. Almost 200 have been killed since Sept 2025. No trial, no defence. 🔗 www.elclip.org/los-bombarde... #LosBombardeados
Los Bombardeados: sin derecho a la defensa
Una investigación que busca revelar quiénes son las víctimas y cuáles han sido los efectos colaterales de los bombardeos de Estados Unidos a supuestas narcolanchas en el Caribe y el Océano Pacífico de...
elclip.org
