Palestine
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Letter to the Editor from former Legal Adviser to Palestine’s Mission to the United Nations
Below, reader Yousef N. Zeidan replies to Robert Howse’s Palestine and the ICC: Law and Rhetoric, and to an exchange of letters between reader Jonathan Somer and Howse.…
Howse Reply to Letter to the Editor
Below, Robert Howse replies to a letter to the editor from reader Jonathan Somer, referencing Howse’s post, Palestine and the ICC: Law and Rhetoric. In his letter to the…
Letter to the Editor: Howse on Palestine and the ICC
The letter below replies to “Palestine and the ICC: Law and Rhetoric” by Robert Howse, published January 7. In discussing who decides whether Palestine is a ‘State’…
Palestine and the ICC: Law and Rhetoric
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has said that Palestine will join the International Criminal Court in April. Yet it is not the Secretary General’s decision to make. …
Palestine and the ICC — Some Legal Questions
There has already been a great deal of political commentary about the Palestinian decision to join the International Criminal Court. What about the legal issues? Statehood The…
Breaking News: ICC Prosecutors Decline to Investigate “Freedom Flotilla” Incident
It is being reported (by Reuters, the Jerusalem Post, and others) that the International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor has closed its preliminary examination into…
UN Human Rights Committee Offers Concluding Observations on Israel
As Ruchi Parekh highlighted earlier this month on Just Security, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has been considering both the fourth periodic report of Israel and the…
New Development in Palestinian bid to Join International Criminal Court
Reports this week indicate that the Hamas leadership has signed a pledge to support any move by the Palestinian Authority to become a state party to the International Criminal…
The ICRC’s Position on Human Shields (and Gaza)—A Reply to Professor Adil Haque
I agree with Professor Adil Haque’s description of the ICRC’s bifurcated position on voluntary human shields. I have accordingly added a note in my original post which now…
Letter to the Editor: Human Shields in the DPH Guidance
[Editor’s Note: Ryan Goodman responds to Professor Haque’s letter to the editor in a subsequent post.] In his recent post, Ryan Goodman writes that the ICRC adopts the view…
Resource: The Israeli Government’s Legal Position on Who is a “Combatant” in the Gaza Conflict [Updated]
There has been a lot of loose talk in the media and by some commentators about the government of Israel’s official position on the definition of who is a lawful target in Gaza.…
Who does the New York Times think is a combatant in Gaza?
There is a strange quality to today’s story by the New York Times on the civilian casualty rate in Gaza (“Civilian or Not? New Fight in Tallying the Dead from the Gaza Conflict”).…