A while ago we asked Jessica Whyte @[email protected] & Marina Velickovic if they would collect a reading list on #GazaGenocide We really hope this collection of critical (legal) thought will be helpful as people try to understand events & prepare to teach them! criticallegalthinking.com/2024/05/01/gaz…

New: Bellingcat and Scripps News followed one IDF battalion’s movements across Gaza, geolocating their social posts to highlight IDF involvement in systematic destruction of Palestinian land and livelihoods: bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

Israel’s annihilation war in Gaza “has created 37m tonnes of debris, much of it laced with unexploded bombs, which could take more than a decade to remove” theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

.Department of Defense 🇺🇸 has just published its 2022 report on civilian casualties caused by US operations (due almost a year ago).

DoD reported zero civilian casualties in 2022, and made zero ex gratia payments that year. 🧵

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I wrote about the legal duty to respect the dead in #Gaza here for EJIL: Talk! earlier this year. Sadly, the issue is relevant again.

States have a duty to prevent the dead from becoming missing!

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On the mass grave at Nasser Hospital: “Among the [283] deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, while others were found tied with their hands…tied and stripped of their clothes,” — Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

In Journal of Institute for Palestine Studies, Neve Gordon and I analyse the emergence and circulation of 'medical lawfare' —Israel's discourse of legitimization of its attacks on lifesaving and sustaining infrastructures, from 2007 until the ongoing genocide in Gaza tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'Additional automated systems, including one called 'Where’s Daddy?' ... were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.'

Unfathomably horrific.
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“The machine did it coldly. And that made it easier.”
Another stunning investigation by Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם +972 Magazine into Israel’s use of military AI
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Thread: Muna Haddad and I trace in this long piece how Israel has used food to control the Palestinians in Gaza from 1967 until today. Below is a thread of just one paragraph so as to provide a sense of the kind of machinations that were put to work.

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Taken together, these positions represent a wholesale reinterpretation of the law on the conduct of hostilities, effectively rendering most IHL protections for civilians and civilian objects meaningless.
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The articles in this list address the many dimensions of the politics of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Reading List: The Nuclear Issue academic.oup.com/ia/pages/the_n…

✊Our latest from Nicola Perugini looks at international humanitarian law's difficulty accommodating the realities of anticolonial struggle, where thinkers deliberately undermine the distinction between passive civilians and active combatants. Read here ⤵️
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Israel’s defence at the CIJ_ICJ genocide case was its supposed adherence to humanitarian principles eg. warnings, safe zones. ‘Humanitarian violence’ is the abuse of humanitarian principles to amplify and proliferate rather than contain the effects of military violence. 🧵

Please sign the petition to stop the proposed cuts at TVNZ. together.org.nz/save_our_stori…

In 2007, Dutch bombing decimated a residential compound in Afghanistan, killing at least 11 civilians.

Our new visual investigation reconstructs the events leading up to the attack, and delves into the survivors’ 15 year fight for answers.

1/5

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Vital work from Airwars' bigger & better investigations team: Nathan Walker, Azul De Monte & Sanjana painstakingly outline the incidents behind a little-known Dutch court case that provides an important win for civilians harmed by international forces - see Mark Lattimer

1/3 Great analysis from Karolina MacLachlan at CIVIC on Denmark’s admission that it was responsible for strikes in Libya which killed up to 14 civilians. Denmark’s role was revealed in a joint investigation by Airwars, the Guardian and Altinget last month. altinget.dk/artikel/britis…

I remember distinctly in 2019 when I was dismissed by a US think tanker for suggesting that Project Maven would be used for precisely this kind of accelerated targeting. This speed with which goal post change should concern us all (1/4) bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

Our Channel 4 News report on today’s disaster in Gaza, in which eye-witnesses say IDF shot at people desperately grabbing food from an aid convoy in Gaza City. The IDF have a different version of events. With Freddie Gower Stephen Hird
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