Following last week's UN Security Council meeting on Gaza, Elvina Pothelet provides an analysis for third States considering whether to participate in the Board of Peace, ISF, or CMCC, emphasizing the potential risks of doing so: www.justsecurity.org/139923/trump... #Gaza #BoP

Supporting the Trump Plan for Gaza? Legal Considerations for Third States

Support for Trump’s Gaza plan must be strictly conditioned on compliance with international law and reassessed in light of evolving facts.

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Some public events in the midst of busy couple of weeks full of closed door briefings and bilateral meetings www.genevaforum.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn_v... medsolidar.org/en + this forthcoming www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-m...

Talking about the unbearable gap between is (the realities on the ground) and ought (what international law requires) at a conference on Gaza in Berlin

From my intervention on a panel at the @asilorg.bsky.social annual meeting yesterday.

In a new post, Ellen Nohle and I explain why Israel’s new modus operandi of mass displacement via evacuation orders directives and warnings is unlawful even while supposedly removing civilians from harm’s way www.ejiltalk.org/from-gaza-to...

From Gaza to Lebanon: Forcible Displacement Dressed in Humanitarian Garb

In recent hostilities, first in the Gaza Strip and now in Lebanon, the Israeli military has adopted a new modus operandi: issuing blanket relocation directives instructing millions of people to indefi...

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To continue with business as usual after Israel enacted an apartheidist death penalty law that is designed to apply only to Palestinians would make a travesty of this provision of the EU - Israel Association Agreement.

By enacting a death penalty law crafted to apply to Palestinian but not to Israeli perpetrators of homicidal terror, Israeli lawmakers have compounded the barbarism of State sponsored homicide with institutionalized racism to produce a murderous form of apartheid. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

Israel Passes Law to Hang Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks

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The latest from the IHL Centre on how States should act to alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza while respecting the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and other fundamental norms of international law www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/int...

International Law Parameters for Third-State Engagement in Gaza

This brief aims to clarify the parameters that UN member States would be required to adhere to under international law should they engage with entities on which UN Security Council resolution 2803 pur...

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Important piece by my wonderful colleague Anna-Christina Schmidl verfassungsblog.de/an-abdicatio...

An Abdication of Legal and Historical Responsibility

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As Ellen Nohle and I argue in 'Humanitarian Displacement? The (Mis)Appropriation of Humanitarian Principles to Justify Mass Displacement' (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) the legality of such mass displacements is highly dubious

The latest from the IHL Centre outlines humanitarian and legal imperatives at a critical juncture in the Palestinian-Israeli context www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/leg...

Legal and Humanitarian Imperatives for the ‘Day After’ in Gaza

This publication outlines legal and humanitarian imperatives for the ‘Day After’ in Gaza, grounded mainly in IHL and IHRL.

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Now even more apt

Karthik Sankaran@rajakorman.bsky.social · last yr.

The Schmitt has hit the fan.

"Humanitarian Displacement?" that Ellen Nohle and I wrote earlier this year is going through final proofs and will soon be published and palced behind the publisher's firewall. Until then a preprint version is still available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I haven’t got the time to adapt it into a book, but with the blatant defiance of visual evidence of violations I analyzed in my PhD now being more pervasive than ever, I’ve decided to share the full text papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I was delighted to join host Sarah Henry on the latest episode of the excellent podcast Activist Lawyer. Our conversation is available here: activistlawyer.podbean.com/e/ep-120-the...

Deeply distressing yet not surprising that a champion of genocide is now calling for the State to engage in homicidal crimes www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Itamar Ben-Gvir calls to assassinate Palestinian Authority officials, arrest Abbas | The Jerusalem Post

"Targeted assassinations of senior PA officials should be ordered if the UN recognizes a Palestinian State," Ben-Gvir said on Monday.

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Just out! A paper that Orna Ben Naftali, Anna Christina Schmidl and I co-authored in which we search for specks of light in the current darkness. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Witches don’t exist. What do exist, unfortunately, are contemptable men who mount witch hunts to serve their own repulsive political and puny psychological needs.

A talk I gave in Berlin on Saturday called "Not a time to stand idly by" www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPJ...

Shield or Sword? IHL's protective function under pressure. #Geneva colleagues, join us on 23 October for a panel discussion co-organized by the IHL Centre and @gpplatform.ch, with @annyssabellal.bsky.social, Prof. Marco Sassòli, @eitandi.bsky.social, Swiss MFA, @icrc.org mailchi.mp/ihlcentre.or...

What future is this boy walking towards? A statement that the IHL Centre issued today – exactly two years since the onset of the darkest chapter in a long history of violence – addresses the unbearable cost of the hostilities for a generation of children. www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/sta...

Statement - Two Years On: The Unbearable Cost of War for a Generation of Children

This statement marks two years since the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023. Those attacks and Israel’s large-scale military campaign in the ensuing years entailed serious violations of int...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1yF...

International Law in the Israeli-Palestinian Context — In Conversation with Dr. Eitan Diamond

YouTube video by Magazin zenith

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152. "A War on Children": A Generation in Gaza at Risk (James Elder)

Spotify video

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IPC Famine Review Committe findings www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

In a note just published by @ejiltalk.bsky.social, I examine and critique Israel’s paridoxical appeal to humanitarian reasoning and language to obscure, justify, and facilitate harmful conduct www.ejiltalk.org/humanitarian...

Ezra Klein interviews Philippe Sands about genocide. Well worth listening to. open.spotify.com/episode/0ZBm...

When Is It Genocide?

The Ezra Klein Show · Episode

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Increased construction (of Israeli settlements) alongside mass destruction (of Palestinian homes and infrastructure) – complementary aspects of the same unlawful, criminal, displacement and dispossession of one people by another www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israel's Smotrich approves settlement splitting East Jerusalem from West Bank

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approved plans overnight for a settlement that would split East Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, a move his office said would bury the idea of a Palestinian state.

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The most basic provisions of IHL and dictates of human decency prohibit attacks on rescue workers. But in a war where every tabu has already been breached, neither law nor humanity have any sway. www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...

‘Double tap’ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts

In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers to prevent them from saving the wounded.

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In @opiniojuris.bsky.social, my colleague Anna-Christina Schmidl and I explain Israel’s systematic disregard of protections set in #IHL, contributing to conditions of life that seem calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza. opiniojuris.org/2025/07/11/t...

The Systematic Destruction of Healthcare in Gaza

[Anna-Christina Schmidl is a legal advisor with the International Humanitarian Law Centre. Eitan Diamond is a manager and senior legal expert at the International Humanitarian Law Centre.] Introduc…

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From the people who called killing fields “humanitarian aid” (www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...) now comes “humanitarian city” for concentration camp (www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...), and “humanitarian transit areas” for routes to ethnic cleansing (www.reuters.com/world/middle...).

Defense minister: Israel to concentrate all Gaza population in Rafah 'humanitarian' zone

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