En Gaza, el objetivo ahora es sobrevivir hasta el alto el fuego | Internacional – Go Health Pro

En Gaza, el objetivo ahora es sobrevivir hasta el alto el fuego | Internacional – Go Health Pro

Shahd Raed Al Wahidi no salió a la calle este miércoles a celebrar el acuerdo de alto el fuego, como sí hicieron otros gazatíes, al vislumbrar por fin un horizonte de esperanza tras 15 meses de sufrimiento. Compartía la ilusión, pero tenía miedo. “Aunque estamos en los campamentos [de desplazados], era peligroso”, aclara. Más aún … Read more

La tensa espera de las familias de los rehenes israelíes en Gaza: “Nada es definitivo hasta que crucen la frontera” | Internacional – Go Health Pro

La tensa espera de las familias de los rehenes israelíes en Gaza: “Nada es definitivo hasta que crucen la frontera” | Internacional – Go Health Pro

No hay noticias desde hace meses de Gadi Moses, que el 12 de marzo cumplirá 81 años y es uno de los rehenes de más edad que permanecen en Gaza desde el 7 de octubre de 2023, secuestrados por Hamás. “Nada”, responde su hijo Oded a través de mensajes de teléfono al ser preguntado por … Read more

Legal issues arising from Israel’s conduct in North Gaza – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Legal issues arising from Israel’s conduct in North Gaza – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Since the beginning of October 2024, the Israeli military has imposed a siege on significant parts of the North Gaza governorate amidst continued attacks and catastrophic humanitarian conditions. More than 100,000 Palestinians have been displaced as a result, while those unwilling or unable to leave have been deprived of water, food, and other indispensable means … Read more

Gaza, Genocide and the Discursive Limits of International Law – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Legal issues arising from Israel’s conduct in North Gaza – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Image: Qassem, a Palestinian shepherd from Umm al Fugara, is being investigated by Israeli military police and army for land ownership, after a settler wrongfully accused him of assault. Philippe Pernot.

Whether within the lexicon of international law or the parlance of everyday conversation, invoking ‘genocide’ is pregnant with explosive and abrasive intent. Lawyers and activists alike employ the word’s singular expressive power to condemn and to galvanise. We have seen this in the case of Israel’s assault on the Gazan population over the last year. Initially, genocide was uttered in a number of circles in slightly faltering tones, but it is now used with increasing confidence and conviction in diverse circles even in the face of trenchant opposition. While practices of indescribable pain have become normalised, speakers of the law have tried to resist this trend through creative and abundant genocide anachronisms and neologisms. We understand ‘genocide anachronisms’ as adjacent terms and approaches that were either subsumed or overlooked in the drafting of the 1948 genocide definition. While these broad conceptualisations were capable of capturing the variegated elements of collective annihilation, we suggest that ‘genocide neologisms’ speaks to more recent efforts to reinvigorate the potentiality of genocide, whether as a non-legal scholarly mode of analysis or as an attempt at norm creation. Thus, when trying to characterise the carnage that is Gaza today, for many, it is no longer enough to speak of genocide. Instead, we can see a proliferation of killing (‘cide’) words to try to capture the variegated contours of genocide. Well-worn terms sit alongside newer variants, all jostling to articulate the nature of Israeli criminality. We identify these ‘cides’ as: spacioicide, domicide, ecocide, politicide, economicide, sociocide, scholasticide, memoricide, medicide, Gazacide and related terms such as ‘unchilding’, and Nakba.

Part of the reason for resorting to this cacophony of criminalisation is to undercut anxieties around the purported limitations and rigidities of genocide, especially in relation to intent and its focus on physical destruction. Rather than rejecting the law or the notion of genocide then, we understand these efforts as ways to build on traditional renderings of genocide and make these resonate with the situation in Gaza today. Such efforts perhaps speak to a widespread need by legal and non-legal scholars alike to have their respective fields be seen as relevant in the face of such suffering. It is striking that genocide and its related ‘cides’ often crowds out other paradigms, especially focused on the situation in Gaza as one of numerous crimes against humanity.

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Israeli air strike on Gaza support convoy kills not less than 4 Palestinians – Go Well being Professional

Israeli air strike on Gaza support convoy kills not less than 4 Palestinians – Go Well being Professional

Unlock the Editor’s Digest without cost Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favorite tales on this weekly publication. At the very least 4 folks had been killed on Thursday in an Israeli air strike on an support convoy carrying gas and drugs to a hospital in southern Gaza, a day after a meals … Read more

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