Tom Dannenbaum

Roles reversed: A veteran Gaza aid worker pleads for survival An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

And now UCLA -- the USG is marching through the top research universities one by one. And because of the overwhelming power of the USG, the best we can hope for is a not-bad deal. See my analysis here: contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-reg...

excellent thread on what happens when the government creates alternative facts and insists everyone else believe them too . . .

Alex de Waal:

“Starvation takes time; authorities cannot starve a population by accident.”

Moreover, distinctively in this case, “If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel decided tonight that every Palestinian child in Gaza should have breakfast tomorrow, it could undoubtedly be done.“

It is worth reading this detailed investigative report in full. There are many important points. Among them is the straightforward debunking of efforts in some quarters to invoke the allegations against Karim Khan to impugn the arrest warrants in the Palestine situation.

"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

All 3 Hamas leaders for whom the ICC prosecutor sought arrest warrants were subsequently killed
Not clear if other warrants have been sought under seal. But they should be, incl here for the (continuing) crime of taking hostages, cruel / inhuman treatment or torture, & outrages upon personal dignity

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U.N. Relief Chief: Gaza is a man-made famine, the politics is a sideshow | CNN Christiane Amanpour speaks with Tom Fletcher, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator, about the “desperate… impossible conditions” inside Gaza and what he says are the “bureaucratic impediments” preventing...

Gaza is starving.

We want to believe sustained international pressure will allow us to save as many lives as possible in Gaza. But so far we’re not seeing the scale of change we need.

My interview on @cnn.com with @camanpour.bsky.social : www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/T...

Slovenia bans import, export and transit of weapons to and from Israel

"In such circumstances, it is the duty of every responsible state to take action, even if it means taking a step ahead of others" 🇸🇮

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel’s war in Gaza.

Read the full list of known names of children killed in the war: wapo.st/4o4Tc3k

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Executive Director Alex de Waal & fellow @fletcherschool.bsky.social Professor @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.

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Van Hollen speaks on effort to block offensive arms sales to Netanyahu Govt as starvation grips Gaza YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

Starvation is gripping Gaza as the Netanyahu government uses hunger as a weapon — with complicity from the Trump Admin.

Tune in as I explain why we can't allow more offensive weapons sales to the Netanyahu govt as this humanitarian catastrophe worsens:

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Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

Now @justsecurity.org

I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.

Time has run out

www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...

Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”

Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

For almost 2 years, the claim of mass aid diversion by Hamas has been the pretext for Israel's illegal policy of obstructing & restricting aid to Gaza.

It was never plausible.

Now, as deaths from starvation mount, senior Israeli military officials admit that it was a lie.

Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

Aguilar is a retired Green Beret lieutenant colonel and West Point graduate who started his career as an infantry platoon leader in Mosul with the 172nd Stryker Brigade in 2005-6, joined SF in 2008, was in 3rd SF Group as of 2015, and in 2017 competed for Best Ranger as a USASOC major.

This is why @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
argues siege starvation is societal torture: cjil.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

Not only in its gradual erasure of self, family & community is it characteristic of torture, but in its stratagem of turning responsibility for the crime on its target.

YouTube video by BBC News Former US Green Beret says Israel committed war crimes at Gaza food distribution site | BBC News

"Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israel Defence Forces, without a doubt.

"Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”

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Join Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb in a riveting conversation with Tom Dannenbaum on EJIL: The Podcast!

They discuss the use of force by Israel and the US against Iran, and the recent ECHR Grand Chamber judgment Netherlands v. Russia.

Gaza: ICRC Calls for Cessation of Hostilities & Immediate Influx of Basic Goods Jacob Kurtzer, Communication Coordinator for the ICRC in Israel and the Occupied Territories describes the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, with widespread hunger and desperation leading people to risk their lives for food. He calls for a cessation of hostilities and an immediate influx of basic goods, including medical equipment and clean water supplies, as a core humanitarian responsibility.

"We are calling for a rapid, immediate influx of basic goods into Gaza. The situation is so dire: we need so much more food, we need medical equipment, we need supplies." Jacob Kurtzer, communication coordinator for the ICRC in Israel and the occupied territories👇🏽

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Very rare for the ICRC:

"Every political hesitation" in failing to bring the "abhorrent" practice of extreme deprivation and indiscriminate attacks to an immediate and decisive end "will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war"
States "must do more"