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Guest post by Roberto Iannuzzi, originally published in Italian on his Substack. In the early hours of December 27, the Israeli armed forces stormed the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya at the end of a siege, lasting almost a week, of what was the last functioning healthcare facility in the north of the Gaza Strip. Surgical wards, laboratories and emergency units were burned. Patients were forcibly removed. The Israeli army stated in a communiqué that it was operating inside … [Continue Reading]


A recent ICJ ruling requires countries to end all support for Israeli occupation — but not according to the EU’s internal legal advice. Arthur Neslen The chief legal officer of the European Union’s foreign service advised the department’s top official that a new opinion by judges in The Hague does not require EU states to ban goods imported from Israeli settlements, according to a leaked analysis. Legal experts said that the analysis contradicts the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, … [Continue Reading]


Abdulreza Faraji-Rad, a former elite Iranian diplomat, detailed how Putin cunningly used Erdogan to foil Washington and Tel-Aviv’s secret joint plans to drag Russia into a protracted and exhausting war in Syria. The Syrian gambit Putin’s recent subtle December Syrian gambit, in which he launched Syrian jihadists directly against Israel and the US by “quickly withdrawing Assad” to Moscow, as analyzed yesterday by prominent Iranian diplomat Abdolrez Faraji-Rad, a well-known advocate of a strong Iranian presence in Syria, did not … [Continue Reading]


An internationally recognised Israeli historian has concluded that his country is committing genocide in Gaza after compiling a vast, methodical report documenting a litany of war crimes committed since Israel’s invasion began last year following the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October.   Lee Mordechai, an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has also held a fellowship at Princeton University in the US, has published a report titled “Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War” which, in its English … [Continue Reading]


In the past week, Israeli attacks have targeted and killed aid workers with both Save the Children and the World Central Kitchen. In the deadliest year on-record for aid workers, three quarters of humanitarians killed worldwide in 2024 have been killed by Israel. Attacks on Gaza’s healthcare continue to intensify, too: on Friday, Ahmed al Kahlout, head of Kamal Adwan’s Intensive Care Unit, was killed by a drone attack. Hussam Abu Safyia, the Director of Kamal Adwan in the besieged Beit Lahiya, has pleaded for international intervention to save his … [Continue Reading]


Leak reveals UK lawyers, Israeli government planned ‘special unit’ to counter human rights reporting. Here’s what we know. By Anas Ambri December 1, 2024. Leaked documents show the extent of collaboration between the pro-Israel legal advocacy group and the Israeli government, in their attempt to “counter” the work of human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. On 10 August 2017, pro-Israel advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) approached the Embassy of Israel in London with a “pitch … [Continue Reading]


UKLFI & GC4I (category)

The idea of establishing a “response unit” in the UK seems to have been first formulated by UK Lawyers for Israel in preparation for the 2014 meeting of the Global Coalition for Israel (GC4I), the leaked documents show. Mondoweiss previously wrote about the GC4I, a partnership between the Israeli government and pro-Israel NGOs launched in 2010 to counter the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Its 2014 gathering – the first outside Israel – happened in London. In preparation for the meeting, the Department of International … [Continue Reading]


Three years after the GC4I meeting, members of the barristers’ chambers 9 Bedford Row International (9BRI) shared with Jonathan Turner a work proposal “to further Israel’s interests within the field of international criminal law (ICL) and transnational criminal law”. The entire text of the proposal was among the documents recently leaked from the Israeli Ministry of Justice. The proposal suggested the establishment of “a rapid response unit to correct false narratives articulated by NGOs and intergovernmental organisations” regarding Israel’s discriminatory … [Continue Reading]


In February 2018, Joshua Kern attended the first edition of the Legal Network Initiative, an anti-BDS conference organised by the Ministry of Strategic Affairs in Jerusalem. UKLFI’s Jonathan Turner was also present at the conference. According to Israel National News, attendees of the conference signed a pact “to defend Israel on every possible legal front in the face of de-legitimization and boycotts.” An email sent to the Deputy Attorney General Schöndorf right after the conference suggests that the Ministry of Justice was aware … [Continue Reading]


Lawfare to continue (category)

Five years later, the same legal justifications were recently used by the Israeli government and pro-Israeli groups, as they attempted to challenge the request for arrest warrants issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. On 6 August 2024, barristers from 9BRI submitted a brief to the ICC on behalf of the Israel-based International Association of Jewish Lawyers, questioning the rationale for the arrest warrants request. Among other things, the brief noted that “the State of Israel [is] a democratic State … [Continue Reading]


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