Israel – Palestine: War crimes, self-defence and the ICC

I have consulted with several highly esteemed scholars in international law and crime to understand the legal aspects of the war in Israel-Palestine...

In an article in Newsweek two scholars of law - Avi Bell, professor of law at Bar Ilan University and the University of San Diego and Adv. Avraham Russell Shalev of the Kohelet Policy Forum - argue that ‘the massacre by Hamas presents the International Criminal Court with a golden opportunity to restore its own flagging reputation by promptly indicting the Palestinian officials and terrorists responsible for the horrific crimes of October 7 […] This is a chance for the Court to switch to the right side of the fight for justice[…] Survivors' accounts, together with videos, document parents and siblings being forced at gunpoint to watch the murder of their children, and vice versa. In one case, a teenage boy, shielded by the bodies of his murdered parents, survived being shot to give detailed testimony by phone to his anxious grandfather in the United States as the murderers continued their killing spree. Together, the documentary, forensic and testimonial evidence of Hamas' crimes is o…