"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024" Chris Sidoti spells it out

.Tom Dannenbaum & I trace how the UK Government misconstrues its obligations under the #Genocide Convention in #Gaza, hiding behind a Court judgement that is years away, a position we call "legally illiterate" & "morally indefensible". On Just Security justsecurity.org/121169/uk-misc…

Horrifying.

I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom. 1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.

10 years. 9kg. His name is Nafez. You don't need gas chambers and machetes to have genocide. Israel is designing and perfectioning a new set of weaponery to genocide people as such.

"New mothers and vulnerable newborns are lying on the floor in hospital corridors. I sat with 3 premature babies sharing a single oxygen tank. They share it 20 minutes each: the other 2 children cry whilst the third child gets the oxygen." - James Elder, @unicef from #Gaza

PRESS RELEASE: On 22 October 2025 at 3 p.m. (The Hague), the #ICJ will deliver its Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations (1/2).

READ HERE: The full text of the #ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory go.icj-cij.org/43raTBl

Israel’s obligations under international law, spelled out by CIJ_ICJ ruling, are crystal clear. People of Gaza & throughout the occupied Palestinian territory have right to essential supplies they need to live. Israel is bound to respect, protect & fulfil the human rights of

"Israel's obligations under the law of armed conflict do not cease even for those breaching the Yellow Line," said Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, professor of Public International Law "It can only target enemy fighters or those directly participating in hostilities ..."

Let's be clear drawing and enforcing a "Yellow Line" across Gaza that civilians cannot approach/cross is incompatible with international law.

a new article on the rescue of UNRWA's archive from Gaza academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-ar…

#Sudan: Traumatised civilians remain trapped in El Fasher. Violence is now on the rise in Kordofan, and unless action is taken quickly & decisively there will be even more carnage & atrocities. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk calls for an immediate end to the violence both in

"One prisoner... had boiling water poured on him, while another lost sight in one eye after it was damaged by the muzzle of a dog that attacked him. A second prisoner... said he was raped with a stick by prison staff, who laughed as they abused him." ft.com/content/d4e7e2…

Imagine other situations of genocide in which the military that carried out the war of annihilation is in charge of reconstruction and can use it to increase the control of the population, occupy new territory and forcibly displace exploiting the “ceasefire line.”

PUBLISHED: Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International law (TWAIL) e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/resea…

📢Our latest Digest of State Practice, published by Dr Jasmin Nessa, Agata Kleczkowska and me at JUseofForce & IntLaw, with the help of Regional Coordinators, is finally out! It covers use of force-related incidents from across the world. Read it open access here⬇️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"I would prefer that our critics tell us where did we go wrong. Which piece of that evidence is false, and why? Obviously, they didn't let us in, so we got all of this information, mainly from people inside #Israel." - Navi Pillay, former head of the commission of inquiry on OPT

#ICC: Joint Nordic statement (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden & Iceland) stressing: "States Parties have undertaken the solemn obligation to cooperate fully with the Court & this includes the obligation to comply with requests ...for arrests & surrender" norway.no/en/missions/un…