Eitan Diamond

Just out! A paper that Orna Ben Naftali, Anna Christina Schmidl and I co-authored in which we search for specks of light in the current darkness. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Witches don’t exist. What do exist, unfortunately, are contemptable men who mount witch hunts to serve their own repulsive political and puny psychological needs.

A talk I gave in Berlin on Saturday called "Not a time to stand idly by" www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPJ...

Shield or Sword? IHL's protective function under pressure.

#Geneva colleagues, join us on 23 October for a panel discussion co-organized by the IHL Centre and @gpplatform.ch, with @annyssabellal.bsky.social, Prof. Marco Sassòli, @eitandi.bsky.social, Swiss MFA, @icrc.org
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Statement - Two Years On: The Unbearable Cost of War for a Generation of Children This statement marks two years since the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023. Those attacks and Israel’s large-scale military campaign in the ensuing years entailed serious violations of int...

What future is this boy walking towards? A statement that the IHL Centre issued today – exactly two years since the onset of the darkest chapter in a long history of violence – addresses the unbearable cost of the hostilities for a generation of children. www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/sta...

YouTube video by Magazin zenith International Law in the Israeli-Palestinian Context — In Conversation with Dr. Eitan Diamond

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1yF...

152. "A War on Children": A Generation in Gaza at Risk (James Elder) Spotify video

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IPC Famine Review Committe findings www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

In a note just published by @ejiltalk.bsky.social, I examine and critique Israel’s paridoxical appeal to humanitarian reasoning and language to obscure, justify, and facilitate harmful conduct www.ejiltalk.org/humanitarian...

When Is It Genocide? The Ezra Klein Show · Episode

Ezra Klein interviews Philippe Sands about genocide. Well worth listening to. open.spotify.com/episode/0ZBm...

Israel's Smotrich approves settlement splitting East Jerusalem from West Bank Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approved plans overnight for a settlement that would split East Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, a move his office said would bury the idea of a Palestinian state.

Increased construction (of Israeli settlements) alongside mass destruction (of Palestinian homes and infrastructure) – complementary aspects of the same unlawful, criminal, displacement and dispossession of one people by another www.reuters.com/world/middle...

‘Double tap’ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers to prevent them from saving the wounded.

The most basic provisions of IHL and dictates of human decency prohibit attacks on rescue workers. But in a war where every tabu has already been breached, neither law nor humanity have any sway. www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...

Legal Analysis of the Destruction of Healthcare in North Gaza This publication examines attacks and military operations on and around the premises of the Indonesian Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, and Al-Awda Hospital in North Gaza governorate when it was placed...

For an extended @IHLCentre analysis see: tinyurl.com/mrx6ehsy

The Systematic Destruction of Healthcare in Gaza [Anna-Christina Schmidl is a legal advisor with the International Humanitarian Law Centre. Eitan Diamond is a manager and senior legal expert at the International Humanitarian Law Centre.] Introduc…

In @opiniojuris.bsky.social, my colleague Anna-Christina Schmidl and I explain Israel’s systematic disregard of protections set in #IHL, contributing to conditions of life that seem calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza. opiniojuris.org/2025/07/11/t...

Defense minister: Israel to concentrate all Gaza population in Rafah 'humanitarian' zone ***

From the people who called killing fields “humanitarian aid” (www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...) now comes “humanitarian city” for concentration camp (www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...), and “humanitarian transit areas” for routes to ethnic cleansing (www.reuters.com/world/middle...).

Die Bedingungen zur Lieferung von Hilfsgütern in Gaza sind völkerrechtswidrig Im Gazastreifen genügen die verteilten Hilfsmittel hinten und vorne nicht, um eine Hungerkatastrophe abzuwenden. Weil Israels Regierung ihren humanitären Verpflichtungen nicht nachkommt, muss die inte...

Wise words - in German - from my @ihlcentre.bsky.social colleagues Anna-Christina Schmidl and Elvina Pothelet blog.venro.org/die-bedingun...

Q&A: Legal Issues Surrounding Aid Delivery to Gaza This Q&A seeks to provide a basic guide to some of the legal issues raised by the Israeli-imposed aid delivery scheme in Gaza.

Some answers from @ihlcentre.bsky.social to questions about legal issues surrounding aid delivery to Gaza www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/qa-...

A Legal Appraisal of Israel’s Purported Aid Delivery Scheme in Gaza This publication highlights that the severe limitations and coercive conditions imposed by Israel since May 2025 on the delivery of aid in the Gaza Strip violate several of its obligations under IHL.

While attention is shifting to another front, the people of Gaza continue to endure conditions threatening their survival. A new publication by @ihlcentre.bsky.social shows that controls Israel has imposed on aid delivery worsen the situation in breach of int'l law. www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/a-l...

ICC: Shall we talk about the West Bank? One year after the request for arrest warrants against Hamas and Israeli leaders, the war in Gaza and the colonisation of the West Bank have only intensified. Why is the International Criminal Court n...

new piece by @janethanderson.bsky.social on @justiceinfo.bsky.social net asks some probing questions about crimes and perpetrators that the ICC has not (yet?) addressed in the Palestine case. Some answers from me inside www.justiceinfo.net/en/146344-ic...

Breakfast Briefing with Eitan Diamond and Anna-Christina Schmid Shrinking Civic and Humanitarian Space in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Looking forward to presenting about @ihlcentre.bsky.social
's work in Israel-Palestine at Uni of Copenhagen
– please come to say hi if you’re around! jura.ku.dk/icourts/cale...

Still a while till 'Humanitarian displacement? The (mis)appropriation of humanitarian principles to justify mass displacement' comes out in YIHL v 27, but a recorded presentation of it is available here podcasts.ox.ac.uk/humanitarian... and the preprint is here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Statement: Grave Concern Over Conditions of Life Threatening Palestinians’ Survival Amidst unprecedented threats to the continued existence of the Palestinian people, the IHL Centre calls for urgent protective measures to ensure their survival.

A statement from @ihlcentre.bsky.social on a Nakba day at a time of newly unfolding catastrophe www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/sta...

Israel will Kritik an seinem Vorgehen kriminialisieren Nicht nur die Missbilligung israelischer Aktionen soll verboten werden, auch Hilfswerke sollen massiv behindert werden.

A story from Swiss broadcaster SRF titled “Israel wants to criminalize criticism of its actions” (google’s translation from the original Schweizerdeutsch) includes an interview with me. www.srf.ch/news/interna...

YouTube video by Monitor Tod in Gaza: Ausgehungert und vertrieben

German news program Monitor investigates the killing of photographer Fatma Hassona against the backdrop of mass displacement and starvation in Gaza. Interviewees include Theodor Meron, Avner Bartov and me www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAu...

Video: Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza Israel’s military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics and first responders in Gaza in March. But eyewitness accounts and an analysis of videos, audio and autopsy repor...

Serious journalism, a stark contrast to the Israeli military's coverup www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Israeli military admits ‘professional failures’ over Gaza paramedic killings IDF says it is dismissing deputy commander for giving ‘inaccurate report’ on shooting that caused global outcry

"Professional failures" can now be added to the Israeli military's creative lexicon of euphemisms. Should read: "war crimes". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

It's difficult to maintain a pretence of democracy while committing atrocities on an industrial scale: Haaretz in Hebrew reports that the Israel Police conditioned approval of an anti-war protest on the demonstrators not displaying "images of children from Gaza" or signs bearing the word “genocide”

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Architecture of violence - how Israel engineered genocide in Gaza | Eyal Weizman | UNAPOLOGETIC

A powerful intervention by Eyal Weizman of @forensicarchi.bsky.social about the architecture of genocide at play as Israel deliberately inflicts conditions of life in Gaza calculated to bring about the physical destruction of its people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GTh...

Legal Analysis of the Destruction of Healthcare in North Gaza This publication examines attacks and military operations on and around the premises of the Indonesian Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, and Al-Awda Hospital in North Gaza governorate when it was placed...

Just out from @ihlcentre.bsky.socias a legal analysis on the destruction of healthcare in North Gaza www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/des...

For more on the themes addressed in my Just Security contribution below see here www.diakonia.se/ihl/jerusale... and here www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/shr...