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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Now even more apt

"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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...).

Wise words - in German - from my @ihlcentre.bsky.social colleagues Anna-Christina Schmidl and Elvina Pothelet blog.venro.org/die-bedingun...

Some answers from @ihlcentre.bsky.social to questions about legal issues surrounding aid delivery to Gaza www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/qa-...

While attention is shifting to another front, the people of Gaza continue to endure conditions threatening their survival. A new publication by @ihlcentre.bsky.social shows that controls Israel has imposed on aid delivery worsen the situation in breach of int'l law. www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/a-l...

new piece by @janethanderson.bsky.social on @justiceinfo.bsky.social net asks some probing questions about crimes and perpetrators that the ICC has not (yet?) addressed in the Palestine case. Some answers from me inside www.justiceinfo.net/en/146344-ic...

Looking forward to presenting about @ihlcentre.bsky.social 's work in Israel-Palestine at Uni of Copenhagen – please come to say hi if you’re around! jura.ku.dk/icourts/cale...

Still a while till 'Humanitarian displacement? The (mis)appropriation of humanitarian principles to justify mass displacement' comes out in YIHL v 27, but a recorded presentation of it is available here podcasts.ox.ac.uk/humanitarian... and the preprint is here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A statement from @ihlcentre.bsky.social on a Nakba day at a time of newly unfolding catastrophe www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/sta...

A story from Swiss broadcaster SRF titled “Israel wants to criminalize criticism of its actions” (google’s translation from the original Schweizerdeutsch) includes an interview with me. www.srf.ch/news/interna...

German news program Monitor investigates the killing of photographer Fatma Hassona against the backdrop of mass displacement and starvation in Gaza. Interviewees include Theodor Meron, Avner Bartov and me www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAu...

Serious journalism, a stark contrast to the Israeli military's coverup www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

"Professional failures" can now be added to the Israeli military's creative lexicon of euphemisms. Should read: "war crimes". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

It's difficult to maintain a pretence of democracy while committing atrocities on an industrial scale: Haaretz in Hebrew reports that the Israel Police conditioned approval of an anti-war protest on the demonstrators not displaying "images of children from Gaza" or signs bearing the word “genocide”

A powerful intervention by Eyal Weizman of @forensicarchi.bsky.social about the architecture of genocide at play as Israel deliberately inflicts conditions of life in Gaza calculated to bring about the physical destruction of its people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GTh...

Just out from @ihlcentre.bsky.socias a legal analysis on the destruction of healthcare in North Gaza www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/des...

For more on the themes addressed in my Just Security contribution below see here www.diakonia.se/ihl/jerusale... and here www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/shr...

Israel’s revised registration process for international NGOs aiding Palestinians creates a chilling effect against criticism and accountability, writes @eitandi.bsky.social He has experienced the effect firsthand: www.justsecurity.org/109772/israe...

There goes the "rules-based international order" www.algemeiner.com/2025/04/04/b...

Staatsräson vs. Rechtsstaat

At a time of most dire need – for which it is responsible – Israel has shrunk humanitarian space in the oPt to the point of disappearance. See @ihlcentre.bsky.social's legal analysis. www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/shr...

This is excellent and very disturbing. Our reality is surreal. open.spotify.com/episode/0W0s...