Today, hearings will begin in the International Court of Justice, where South Africa is accusing Israel of genocide in Palestine. How will the proceedings work, and what does it mean for the war?
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Proportionality requires that lives of civilians on both sides of a conflict must be treated with the same degree of respect.
The spike in violence was marked by a 68% increase in fatalities involving civilians.
More than half a million people have died in Syria’s war with half the population displaced. The suffering will continue until there is a reckoning with Assad and his allies.
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Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland
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Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, University of Maryland
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Associate Research Fellow, Africa Center for Strategic Studies
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Professor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of International Law, Australian National University
