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Apr 5 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
@NRC_Norway calls for the immediate cessation of hostilities to avert further atrocities, after six months of unparalleled hostilities in #Gaza.
"The humanitarian crisis in #Gaza has reached catastrophic levels, with nearly the entire population forcibly displaced and facing dire shortages of essential goods and services for survival," said @NRC_Egeland, secretary general of @NRC_Norway.
#Gaza has become one of the world’s most dangerous areas, with civilians and aid workers facing unprecedented risks and indiscriminate attacks, in what amounts to gross and systemic violations of international law.
More than one week after the UN Security Council #UNSC demanded an immediate ceasefire, and despite additional provisional measures mandated by the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ, there remains no tangible improvement in the situation for civilians on the ground.
After six months of bloodshed, the UN Security Council #UNSC must fulfil its responsibility to restore peace and security. It is beyond time for the international community to honour its commitments to prevent atrocity crimes and protect civilians,” said @NRC_Egeland.
@NRC_Norway repeats its call for an immediate ceasefire and for all hostages to be released. #Israel and its allies must ensure that aid can now flow freely to avert a famine, and ensure protection for #Palestinian civilians, who have been indiscriminately killed.
@NRC calls on the UN Security Council #UNSC and all concerned states to consider measures, such as conditioning, suspending, or refusing arms transfers, that would be commensurate with the scale and severity of #Israel's unlawful actions.
Lawful countermeasures applied by states should conform with obligations arising when peremptory norms of international law are breached, and be reversible once Israel complies with its obligations, ceases its wrongful behaviour, and provides reparations to its victims.
@NRC_Norway This is one way by which aid to #Gaza can be ensured:
The @UN_HRC #HRC55 was of the same view, adopting the following decision:

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Apr 4
BREAKING: In the #Israeli High Court of Justice hearing of the petition by @Gisha_Access to order the State to remove impediments to humanitarian relief to #Gaza, the State Council makes two interrelated arguments: Image
1/3 First, #Israel is not the occupying power in #Gaza, with respect to Art.42 of the Hague Regulations, as it is not under its actual authority, but under that of Hamas. Counsel would like to share facts an 'in camera' session. Image
2/3 Second, #Israel complies with Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and Article 70 of Additional Protocol I: as a belligerent - and not as an occupying power - it has allowed relief actions in #Gaza to be undertaken. Image
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Apr 4
Two legal reflections on the expose by @yuval_abraham @972mag: #Israel's misapplication of 'continuous combat function,' and the low threshold for civilian harm. A thread: 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…
1/10 In a non-international armed conflict (NIAC), an individual whose continuous function involves the preparation,
execution or command of operations amounting to direct participation in hostilities on behalf of an organized armed group is considered a member of that group.
2/10 That person is seen to have "continuous combat function" (CCF) and loses his protection against the dangers arising from military operations for the duration of that membership. Persons cease to be civilians within the meaning of IHL for as long as they hold 'CCF'.
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Apr 3
#Israel’s 6-month offensive in #Gaza amounts to a 'war of debilitation,' characterized by the unlawful intent and attempt to bring the complete destruction and disintegration of all public life and institutions, as shown by a @WorldBank, @EU_Commission and @UN report:
The housing sector and population centers have sustained the majority of damages, estimated at 18.5 billion USD, equivalent to 97% of the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of West Bank & Gaza in 2022. Image
#Israel's 'debellatio' of #Gaza, aiming at the "complete and total defeat of an adversary, and the taking of "spoils of war" (the territory and sovereignty of the vanquished belligerent)," is quantitatively different to 14' (1.3 billion USD) and 21' (338 million USD) hostilities inflicted destruction.Image
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Apr 2
The targeted killing by #Isarel of seven World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen humanitarian relief personnel in #Gaza is not a "tragic incident," as Israeli officials put it, but a culmination of normative problems, going back decades. A thread: Image
1/5 A permissive attitude on the use of force by #Israel in #Gaza has already led to the killing of numerous @UNRWA staff and the destruction of its premises, in breach of the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the @UN: Image
2/5 In 2009, during hostilities in #Gaza, #Israel carried out direct and intentional strikes on #UN premises. The Board of Inquiry concluded that the attacks amounted to an egregious breach of the inviolability of premises, which could not be overridden by military expediency.
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Apr 1
To what extent has #Israel annexed occupied #Palestinian territory and created a fait accompli tantamount to the crime of #aggression? Events of yesterday and today in #AlAuja (West Bank) serve as a case in point: Image
Yesterday, Bezalel Smotrich (Min. of Finance and Overseer of Occupied Territory), Idit Silman (Min. of Environmental Protection) and Zvi Sukkot (Chair of Judea and Samaira Parliamentary Committee) visited #AlAuja and vowed to permanently displace this #Palestinian community.
This morning #Israeli armed forces entered the #Alauja, and destroyed several livelihood structures. According to initial reports, a wanton and extensive demolition without any military necessity, in grave breach of #IHL.
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Mar 30
UPDATE: According to #Israel’s published figures, between 7 October 23' and 28 March 24', 252,585 tons of food were allowed into #Gaza, averaging 1,460 tons a day - only 35 percent of the minimum food intake of 4,191 tons a day Israel itself calculated.Image
Yet, #Israel stated on Friday that "we outright reject any allegations according to which Israel is purposefully starving the civilian population in #Gaza." In fact, depriving the population of 65 percent of its minimal daily food ration amounts to intentional starvation.Image
The law of armed conflict #LoAC prohibits the "use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare," understood by @ICRC API Commentary as an attempt to reduce the population to starvation or force it to move.
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