Eitan Diamond
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Manager and Senior Legal Expert, Diakonia IHL Centre, Jerusalem | PhD (Law)
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Eitan Diamond
Just Security
6 days ago
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
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Supporting the Trump Plan for Gaza? Legal Considerations for Third States
Support for Trumpâs Gaza plan must be strictly conditioned on compliance with international law and reassessed in light of evolving facts.
https://www.justsecurity.org/139923/trump-gaza-plan-third-states-legal-considerations/
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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...
25 days ago
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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
30 days ago
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From my intervention on a panel at the
@asilorg.bsky.social
annual meeting yesterday.
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about 1 month ago
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In a new post, Ellen Nohle and I explain why Israelâs new modus operandi of mass displacement via evacuation orders directives and warnings is unlawful even while supposedly removing civilians from harmâs way
www.ejiltalk.org/from-gaza-to...
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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...
https://www.ejiltalk.org/from-gaza-to-lebanon-forcible-displacement-dressed-in-humanitarian-garb/
about 2 months ago
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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.
2 months ago
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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...
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Israel Passes Law to Hang Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/world/middleeast/israel-death-penalty-palestinians-attacks.html
2 months ago
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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 peopleâs right to self-determination and other fundamental norms of international law
www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/int...
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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...
https://www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/international-law-parameters-for-third-state-engagement-in-gaza/
3 months ago
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Important piece by my wonderful colleague Anna-Christina Schmidl
verfassungsblog.de/an-abdicatio...
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An Abdication of Legal and Historical Responsibility
https://verfassungsblog.de/an-abdication-of-responsibility/
3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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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...
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Legal and Humanitarian Imperatives for the âDay Afterâ in Gaza
This publication outlines legal and humanitarian imperatives for the âDay Afterâ in Gaza, grounded mainly in IHL and IHRL.
https://www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/legal-and-humanitarian-imperatives-for-the-day-after-in-gaza/
4 months ago
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Now even more apt
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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"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....
6 months ago
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I havenât 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, Iâve decided to share the full text
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
6 months ago
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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...
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Ep 120: The Role of Law in Conflict: with international lawyer Eitan Diamond | Activist Lawyer
Host Sarah Henry is joined by international lawyer Eitan Diamond, who specialises in international humanitarian law and human rights law. As Manager and Senior Legal Expert at the IHL Centre, Eitan le...
https://activistlawyer.podbean.com/e/ep-120-the-role-of-law-in-conflict-with-international-lawyer-eitan-diamond/
6 months ago
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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/...
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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.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-874182
7 months ago
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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....
7 months ago
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Witches donât exist. What do exist, unfortunately, are contemptable men who mount witch hunts to serve their own repulsive political and puny psychological needs.
7 months ago
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A talk I gave in Berlin on Saturday called "Not a time to stand idly by"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPJ...
7 months ago
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reposted by
Eitan Diamond
8 months ago
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 SassĂČli,
@eitandi.bsky.social
, Swiss MFA,
@icrc.org
mailchi.mp/ihlcentre.or...
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What future is this boy walking towards? A statement that the IHL Centre issued today â exactly two years since the onset of the darkest chapter in a long history of violence â addresses the unbearable cost of the hostilities for a generation of children.
www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/sta...
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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 Israelâs large-scale military campaign in the ensuing years entailed serious violations of int...
https://www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/statement-two-years-on-the-unbearable-cost-of-war-for-a-generation-of-children/
8 months ago
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1yF...
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International Law in the Israeli-Palestinian Context â In Conversation with Dr. Eitan Diamond
YouTube video by Magazin zenith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1yFxecGlC4
9 months ago
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open.spotify.com/episode/0BAu...
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152. "A War on Children": A Generation in Gaza at Risk (James Elder)
Spotify video
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0BAucmz1ZopZXf0zQG9wHJ?si=jZf8Xzg5RayKinOSWF9fZg
9 months ago
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IPC Famine Review Committe findings
www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...
9 months ago
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In a note just published by
@ejiltalk.bsky.social
, I examine and critique Israelâs paridoxical appeal to humanitarian reasoning and language to obscure, justify, and facilitate harmful conduct
www.ejiltalk.org/humanitarian...
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https://www.ejiltalk.org/humanitarian-killing-zones/
9 months ago
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Ezra Klein interviews Philippe Sands about genocide. Well worth listening to.
open.spotify.com/episode/0ZBm...
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When Is It Genocide?
The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZBmFZbEuAv4YpYnzwIXsd?si=6357f2b6e1a94d49
10 months ago
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Increased construction (of Israeli settlements) alongside mass destruction (of Palestinian homes and infrastructure) â complementary aspects of the same unlawful, criminal, displacement and dispossession of one people by another
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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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.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-smotrich-approves-settlement-splitting-east-jerusalem-west-bank-2025-08-14/
10 months ago
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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...
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âDouble tapâ 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.
https://www.972mag.com/double-tap-israel-gaza-airstrikes-rescue/
10 months ago
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In
@opiniojuris.bsky.social
, my colleague Anna-Christina Schmidl and I explain Israelâs 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...
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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.] IntroducâŠ
https://opiniojuris.org/2025/07/11/the-systematic-destruction-of-healthcare-in-gaza/
11 months ago
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From the people who called killing fields âhumanitarian aidâ (
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
) now comes âhumanitarian cityâ for concentration camp (
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
), and âhumanitarian transit areasâ for routes to ethnic cleansing (
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Defense minister: Israel to concentrate all Gaza population in Rafah 'humanitarian' zone
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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-07/ty-article/.premium/defense-minister-israel-to-concentrate-all-gaza-population-in-rafah-humanitarian-zone/00000197-e56a-d1ad-ab97-e5ef764e0000
11 months ago
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Wise words - in German - from my
@ihlcentre.bsky.social
colleagues Anna-Christina Schmidl and Elvina Pothelet
blog.venro.org/die-bedingun...
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Die Bedingungen zur Lieferung von HilfsgĂŒtern in Gaza sind völkerrechtswidrig
Im Gazastreifen genĂŒgen die verteilten Hilfsmittel hinten und vorne nicht, um eine Hungerkatastrophe abzuwenden. Weil Israels Regierung ihren humanitĂ€ren Verpflichtungen nicht nachkommt, muss die inte...
https://blog.venro.org/die-bedingungen-zur-lieferung-von-hilfsguetern-in-gaza-sind-voelkerrechtswidrig/
11 months ago
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Some answers from
@ihlcentre.bsky.social
to questions about legal issues surrounding aid delivery to Gaza
www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/qa-...
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Q&A: Legal Issues Surrounding Aid Delivery to Gaza
This Q&A seeks to provide a basic guide to some of the legal issues raised by the Israeli-imposed aid delivery scheme in Gaza.
https://www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/qa-legal-issues-surrounding-aid-delivery-to-gaza/
11 months ago
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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...
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A Legal Appraisal of Israelâs Purported Aid Delivery Scheme in Gaza
This publication highlights that the severe limitations and coercive conditions imposed by Israel since May 2025 on the delivery of aid in the Gaza Strip violate several of its obligations under IHL.
https://www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/a-legal-appraisal-of-israels-purported-aid-delivery-scheme-in-gaza/
12 months ago
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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...
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ICC: Shall we talk about the West Bank?
One year after the request for arrest warrants against Hamas and Israeli leaders, the war in Gaza and the colonisation of the West Bank have only intensified. Why is the International Criminal Court n...
https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/146344-icc-shall-we-talk-about-the-west-bank.html
12 months ago
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Looking forward to presenting about
@ihlcentre.bsky.social
's work in Israel-Palestine at Uni of Copenhagen â please come to say hi if youâre around!
jura.ku.dk/icourts/cale...
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Breakfast Briefing with Eitan Diamond and Anna-Christina Schmid
Shrinking Civic and Humanitarian Space in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
https://jura.ku.dk/icourts/calendar/2025/breakfast-briefing-with-eitan-diamond-and-anna-christina-schmid/
about 1 year ago
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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....
about 1 year ago
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A statement from
@ihlcentre.bsky.social
on a Nakba day at a time of newly unfolding catastrophe
www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/sta...
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Statement: Grave Concern Over Conditions of Life Threatening Palestiniansâ Survival
Amidst unprecedented threats to the continued existence of the Palestinian people, the IHL Centre calls for urgent protective measures to ensure their survival.
https://www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/statement-palestinians-survival/
about 1 year ago
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A story from Swiss broadcaster SRF titled âIsrael wants to criminalize criticism of its actionsâ (googleâs translation from the original Schweizerdeutsch) includes an interview with me.
www.srf.ch/news/interna...
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Israel will Kritik an seinem Vorgehen kriminialisieren
Nicht nur die Missbilligung israelischer Aktionen soll verboten werden, auch Hilfswerke sollen massiv behindert werden.
https://www.srf.ch/news/international/nahost/gesetzgebung-in-israel-israel-will-kritik-an-seinem-vorgehen-kriminalisieren
about 1 year ago
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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...
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Tod in Gaza: Ausgehungert und vertrieben
YouTube video by Monitor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAut2xIL7U
about 1 year ago
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Serious journalism, a stark contrast to the Israeli military's coverup
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza
Israelâs military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics and first responders in Gaza in March. But eyewitness accounts and an analysis of videos, audio and autopsy repor...
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010140613/israel-gaza-medics-attack-idf.html
about 1 year ago
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"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...
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Israeli military admits âprofessional failuresâ over Gaza paramedic killings
IDF says it is dismissing deputy commander for giving âinaccurate reportâ on shooting that caused global outcry
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/20/israeli-military-admits-professional-failures-over-gaza-paramedic-killings
about 1 year ago
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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 âgenocideâ
about 1 year ago
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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...
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Architecture of violence - how Israel engineered genocide in Gaza | Eyal Weizman | UNAPOLOGETIC
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GThjS5hySc
about 1 year ago
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Just out from @ihlcentre.bsky.socias a legal analysis on the destruction of healthcare in North Gaza
www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/des...
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Legal Analysis of the Destruction of Healthcare in North Gaza
This publication examines attacks and military operations on and around the premises of the Indonesian Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, and Al-Awda Hospital in North Gaza governorate when it was placed...
https://www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/destruction-of-healthcare-north-gaza/
about 1 year ago
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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...
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about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Eitan Diamond
Just Security
about 1 year ago
Israelâs 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...
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New Israeli Guidelines Threaten to Eliminate Humanitarian Action in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Almost Entirely
A revised registration process for international NGOs aiding Palestinians creates a chilling effect against criticism and accountability.
https://www.justsecurity.org/109772/israel-humanitarian-ngo-guidelines/
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There goes the "rules-based international order"
www.algemeiner.com/2025/04/04/b...
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Belgium Joins Hungary in Rejecting ICC Warrant Against Netanyahu, Signaling Shift in International Stance - Algemeiner.com
Belgium announced it would not enforce the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza, should he visit Brussels...
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/04/04/belgium-joins-hungary-in-rejecting-icc-warrant-against-netanyahu-signaling-shift-in-international-stance/
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Eitan Diamond
Adil Haque
about 1 year ago
StaatsrÀson vs. Rechtsstaat
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At a time of most dire need â for which it is responsible â 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...
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Shrinking Humanitarian Space in the oPt: An IHL Assessment
This publication closely examines the rules of IHL that regulate humanitarian activities, with a particular focus on Israelâs obligations in relation to the Gaza Strip but also the West Bank, includin...
https://www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/shrinking-humanitarian-space-opt/
about 1 year ago
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This is excellent and very disturbing. Our reality is surreal.
open.spotify.com/episode/0W0s...
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857: Museum of Now
This American Life · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0W0s6koyVQKnh7aehXMovE?si=9ZvZQTMtSgSpbn_saQS21Q&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A41zWZdWCpVQrKj7ykQnXRc
about 1 year ago
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