التمويه الإنساني: إسرائيل تعيد كتابة قوانين الحرب لإضفاء الشرعية على الإبادة الجماعية في غزة
Éditeur: 
Institute for Palestine Studies
Année de publication: 
2024
Langue: 
Anglais
Nombre de pages: 
35
Résumé

The authors examine Israel’s use of international humanitarian law (IHL) to justify actions in Gaza that amount to genocide. They contend that Israel’s settler-colonial agenda systematically strips Palestinians of their rights, transforming Gaza into a site of extreme violence, segregation, and mass annihilation. The authors discuss how Israel’s tactics include mass expulsions, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and the use of distorted legal discourse to present these actions as compliant with IHL, despite their genocidal nature. They show that the appropriation of IHL serves as a legal-political strategy to mask atrocities while framing Gaza’s Palestinian population as a “terrorist” group to be eliminated. Ultimately, this installment raises urgent concerns about how such legal distortions may enable future genocides globally, under the guise of lawful warfare.

À propos de l’auteur

Dr. Luigi Daniele teaches and researches international humanitarian law and international criminal law at Nottingham Law School (NTU). His research focuses on the law of targeting, war crimes law, and the proposed crime of ecocide. His latest contributions concerned the misuses of the notion of 'collateral damage', the crisis and changing landscape of genocide studies (with R. Segal), and the war crimes of destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity. He is author of the forthcoming Indiscriminate and Disproportionate Attacks in International Law: Bridging the Accountability Gap (Hart Publishing, 2025). 

Nicola Perugini teaches at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. His research revolves around the politics of human rights and international law, and the ethics of violence, with special focus on Palestine. He is the co-author of The Human Right to Dominate (Oxford University Press 2015) and Human Shields. A History of People in the Line of Fire (University of California Press 2020). His current research explores the role of civilians in anti-colonial national liberation wars. Nicola publishes regularly in several media outlets and blogs. 

Francesca Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. She is an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, and a Senior Advisor on Migration and Forced Displacement for the think tank Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), where she co-founded the Global Network on the Question of Palestine (GNQP), a coalition of renowned professional and scholars engaged in/on Israel/Palestine. She has published widely on the legal situation in Israel/Palestine; her latest book, Palestine Refugees in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), offers a comprehensive legal analysis of the situation of Palestinian refugees from its origins to modern-day reality. She regularly teaches and lectures on International Law and Forced Displacement in European and Arab universities, and speaks frequently at conferences and public events on the legal situation of Palestine. She worked for a decade as a human rights expert for the United Nations, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees. In these capacities, she advised the UN, governments, and civil society across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Asia Pacific, on the enforcement of human rights norms, especially for vulnerable groups including refugees and migrants. She holds a Law Degree (with honors) from the University of Pisa and an LLM in Human Rights from the University of London, SOAS.