Sara Oscar, University of Technology Sydney and Cherine Fahd, University of Technology Sydney
The All Eyes on Rafah image has been criticised as being overly sanitised. How does it compare to other war images? And where is the line between performative solidarity and moral responsibility?
Dozens of people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on May 27.
Haitham Imad / EPA
Though the move by the ICC chief prosecutor is a significant one, it’s very unlikely the Israeli or Palestinian leaders will be arrested or face a trial.
Children’s rights are often violated in times of war.
People carrying Palestinian flags and banners gather in front of the International Criminal Court on Oct. 18, 2023.
Abdullah Asiran/Anadolu via Getty Images
Prosecuting leaders indicted for war crimes is difficult. But the trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the early 2000s offers a potential playbook.
International pressure on Israel to halt its onslaught in Gaza is mounting. New Zealand has so far chosen to stay on the sidelines, despite allies taking more decisive stands.
‘Pressure cooker of despair’: Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt.
Ismael Mohamad/UPI/Alamy Live News
A selection of analysis from our coverage of the war in Gaza over the past fortnight.
Judges arrive for the hearing of the genocide case against Israel brought by South Africa, at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, January 2024.
EPA-EFE/Remko de Waal
Official investigations of suspected Nazi collaborators have long closed. But families are still grappling with the hidden secrets of loved ones, a new book details.
A shell that appears to be white phosphorus from Israeli artillery explodes over a house in al-Bustan, a Lebanese border village with Israel, on October 15.
Hussein Malla/AP
Mass forced movement of people has been used in conflicts to serve three goals: population control, territorial expansion and as a sorting mechanism. All three could be in play in Gaza.
School cantina damages in Ivanivka village, Chernihiv region, Ukraine.“
Anastasiia Chupis
Nearly 3,800 educational facilities have been damaged from bombing and shelling thus far in the war. Documenting these attacks requires extensive interviewing with reluctant, traumatised witnesses.
Both Israelis and Palestinians are accusing each other of genocide. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to a genocide expert on the legal definition of the term.
War crimes investigations are long, complex and involve international sensitivities. Nonetheless, there is growing inevitability that there will be prosecutions from the Israel-Gaza war.