#lawofwar — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115885437502380201
This is called “perfidy” and is illegal in the US and internationally.
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While the #Biden admin maintained a policy of continuous support of #Israel with both intelligence & weapons sharing, the decision inside the intelligence agencies to withhold information was limited & tactical, said 2 of the sources. The officials sought to ensure that Israel was using #US #intelligence in accordance with the #LawOfWar, said the sources.
#Palestinians #HumanitarianCrisis #WarCrimes #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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Officials were concerned that #Israel had not provided sufficient assurances that it would abide by the #LawOfWar when using #US information, acc/to 3 of the sources. Under US #law, #intelligence agencies must receive such assurances before sharing information with a foreign country.
#Palestinians #HumanitarianCrisis #WarCrimes #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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The #US also restricted how #Israel could use certain #intelligence in its pursuit of high-value military targets in #Gaza, said 2 sources.…
The decision came as worries intensified in the US intelligence community about the number of #civilians killed in Israel’s military ops in Gaza. Officials were also concerned that #ShinBet, Israel's domestic security agency, was mistreating #Palestinian #prisoners….
#Palestinians #HumanitarianCrisis #WarCrimes #law #LawOfWar #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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The #ArmedServices cmtes in both the #Senate & #House have opened fact-finding inquiries into a #US op Sept 2 that killed 11 alleged drug runners, including 2 men who survived the #military’s initial strike on their boat in waters off #Venezuela. Holsey’s interview was expected to cover a range of topics, including the controversial nature of his early retirement & scrutiny of the decision-making on Sept 2…. #LawOfWar experts have questioned if the killing of the 2 survivors was legal.
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#Hegseth’s order, which has not been previously reported, adds another dimension to the campaign against suspected drug traffickers. Some current & former #US officials & #LawOfWar experts have said that the #Pentagon’s lethal campaign—which has killed more than 80 people to date—is #unlawful & may expose those most directly involved to future prosecution.
#Trump #criminal #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #Carribean #Pacific #Venezuela #InternationalLaw #Constitution #Congress #WarPowers
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Why #EhudOlmert Thinks His Country Is Committing #WarCrimes
The former Prime Minister of #Israel explains how his view of the conflict in #Gaza has shifted.
#law #ICC #ICJ #LawOfWar #JusInBello #InternationalLaw #GenevaConvention
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-ehud-olmert-thinks-his-country-is-committing-war-crimes -
Die nytimes.com hat akkurat analysiert, wie bei Israels Einsätzen in #Gaza die Grundsätze der Verhältnismäßigkeit (im Sinne des humanitären Völkerrechts) nach dem 7.10. signifikant anders umgesetzt und gewichtet wurden.
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Law of war. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/achterpagina/spotprenten~bc9b7dca/
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Each [of the 7] was given an initial 45 days for a snr ofcl to provide “credible & reliable written assurances” that it will use #UnitedStates defense material in accordance w/ #InternationalHumanitarianLaw & other laws.
The #LawOfWar imposes specific requirements on #targeting, protection of #civilians & treatment of #POWs..
#Israel #Gaza #LawsOfWar #HumanRights #Law #war #HumanitarianCrisis #Palestinians #MiddleEast #GlobalSecurity #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #ForeignPolicy -
Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani sees a link between the violence of the coloniser and the slaughter of Jews and Slavs by the Nazis. The racial theories of Houston Stewart Chamberlain and others who claimed the Aryan race was superior meant that Jews and Slavs, who were both regarded as not Aryan, could be placed beyond the pale of civilisation and were thus candidates for the “laws of nature”, not of war.
Good Jew, Bad Jew: new book explores why the west views brutality against Ukrainians and Palestinians differently
#nazi #racism #Holocaust #apartheid #WWII #colonisation #POWs #israel-palestine #internationalhumanitarianlaw #Forcedlabour #Russia-Ukraine #Lawofwar #Anti-Semitism #Namibiangenocide #2023Israel-Palestinewar #Hererogenocide #Naziconcentrationcamps -
“Under the law of self-defense, even a legitimate aim must be set aside if it is outweighed by the harmful effects of the force necessary to achieve it.
Even if Israel’s right of self-defense is engaged, its current exercise of that right is disproportionate.
Israel must either accept an immediate ceasefire, or drastically narrow its war aims and dramatically change its tactics.”
- Adil Ahmad Haque
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It's long been clear that the blockade Russia proclaimed on the Black Sea was anything but because they can't enforce it. This isn't just a practical matter but a legal one. Dom Nicholls has put together a brief refresher on what the international law of war has to say about Russian pretentions on the Black Sea. https://youtu.be/mnrfeZRAkSQ
#InternationalLaw #LawOfWar #NavalBlockades #BlackSea #RussiaUkraineWar
