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6 years of joint work with so many colleagues and students
700 pages deconstructing the EU apparatus of power from Z to A
500 officials individuals identified in office b/w 2014 and 2020
122 allegedly implicated in ICC crimes
Next: the 2021-2025 suspects
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Instead of immigration custody, #Flotilla activists are held in a remote high-security prison, I told @reuters.com. Israelโs security minister called them terrorists who should โsmell the terroristsโ wardโ for months. Under Israeli law, however, thereโs no basis for either deportation or detention.
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As we watch the interception of the #flotilla unfold live, I outlined the legal framework governing this unprecedented state action: the raiding of 50 boats flying different state flags and the abduction of around 500 people coming from about 50 countries in international waters.
Link in comment.
He openly admitted that the journalists were intentionally targeted by the IDF because their reporting damaged Israelโs reputation. He also said many other journalists are still operating, implicitly calling for their assassination. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyoW...
30.08.2025 06:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0One of the eight suspects in the #ICC case on #incitement to #genocide is Zvi Yehezkeli, an influential Israeli โjournalistโโone might call him part of Israelโs own โRadio Rwanda.โ
30.08.2025 06:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Israel has previously acknowledged the *intentional* killing of (Al-Jazeera) journalists. The targeting of local journalists aligns with Israelโs ban on foreign reporters, and recently, even on foreign doctorsโwho, once home, testify to what they witnessed.
30.08.2025 06:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Also the *second* strike may not have been a โregrettable mistake,โ as PM Netanyahu claimed. Evidence suggests and there is room to argue that the strike that killed the journalists was a deliberate, independent attack. That the journalists were not collateral damage but the target.
30.08.2025 06:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0In any event, already this first strike was a grave breach of international humanitarian law, violating the principles of distinction, precaution, proportionality, and the special protection afforded to medical units.
30.08.2025 06:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Only days earlier, a Palestinian journalist had documented the starving childrenโs ward for Israeli outlet #Haaretz. Coincidentally, he is one of the five who were killed.
30.08.2025 06:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Double tap presumes the *first* strike is on a legitimate military objective. What makes it unlawful is the subsequent strike. Here the alleged target was a camera located in a hospital. The IDF knew journalists were operating there.
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Was the attack on Nasser Hospital in #Gaza, which killed 22 people inc. 5 journalists, a โdouble tapโ?
Rampant in Gaza and constitutes a war crime, I argued that this case was NOT 'double tap', for two reasons:
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ICC Prosecutor steps down. His deputies shouldn't wait any longer:"The urgency stems from the harm caused by incitement: the risk of genocide. This harm is ongoing...the ICC has a duty not only to prosecute past crimes, but to prevent future or terminate ongoing ones" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Jordan provided medical care, then returned 17 wounded children to Gaza.
No country should collaborate with ethnic cleansing.
But no one, under no circumstances, should be forcibly returned to Gaza, I told @apnews.com @washingtonpost.com
Certainly not wounded children!
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons) unanimously adopted the report "Saving the lives of migrants at sea and protecting their human rights". A plenary debate is scheduled for next. month!
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Segรบn el informe entregado a la Corte Penal Internacional, al menos siete figuras gubernamentales y un periodista destacado, todos israelรญes, han sido responsables de este crimen, entre ellos Netanyahu
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โThatโs why words matter. Never before have the orchestrators of these crimes been so direct. Within a few generations, there will be some truth and reconciliation commission. Somehow, these communities will live together. No one is going nowhere.โ
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vous pouvez lire l'histoire du requรฉrant courageux dans cette affaire, Alaa Hamoudi, ici ๐
www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/r...
You can read about the story of the brave applicant in this case, Alaa Hamoudi, a Syrian refugee, here๐
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/a...
Big News ๐kudos to all the team @front-lex.bsky.social โ
For the 1st time #Frontex is in the dock of the #CJEU. The EU judiciary must end impunity & reinstate the Law's Rule in the #EU
+80,000 humans were kidnapped from EU territory by EU agents & abandoned at sea
