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Deconfliction is supposed to keep non-combatants safe. But it is not working in Gaza either for aid workers or journalists.
Victims: one of the World Central Kitchen vehicles destroyed in the Israeli airstrike which killed seven aid workers.
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Humanitarian workers are protected by international law, but the number of aid agency workers being killed around the world is growing.
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The UK government has received advice that Israel is breaking international law in its assault on Gaza, so has an obligation to stop supplying it with arms.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
Hunger: aid agencies are predicting a famine in Gaza if aid isn’t allowed to reach more than a million displaced Palestinians as a matter of ugency.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
Both sides are reporting sexual violence, including rape.
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Investigating sex crimes in a war zone will be hard, but accountability for these crimes against humanity is vital.
Volodymyr Zelensky autographs a Storm Shadow/SCALP missile.
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Helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression is not a violation of international law – but Russia might interpret it as escalation.
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
The crime of genocide was first established in law by a Polish Jew who had fled the Nazis and wanted to hold them to account for the Holocaust.
Display monitors show the result of voting at the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 12, 2023, in favour of a resolution calling on Israel to uphold legal and humanitarian obligations in its war with Hamas.
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In war time, the type of conflict determines what formal rules of war apply. But how to determine the nature of the conflict?
As Israel’s assault moves further south, refugees are running out of safe spaces.
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Gaza is being systematically razed to the ground as the IDF continues its assault.
The scene in the Bureij refugee camp following an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Nov. 14, 2023.
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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.
Israeli troops in the grounds of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, November 15 2023.
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A selection of analysis from our coverage of the war in Gaza over the past fortnight.
EPA-EFE/Mohammed Saber
Without a ceasefire and a negotiated peace there will be no end to the killing of civilians in Gaza.
When does bombing become disproportionate?
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An expert on the laws of war argues that the burden is now on Israel to show that the heavy death toll in Gaza is proportionate to the military advantage gained.
The remains of a rocket that carried cluster munitions found in a Ukrainian field.
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The US administration said that it had received ‘written assurances’ from Ukraine that it would use cluster bombs carefully. Nonetheless, the munition will provide an additional risk to civilians.
A wounded pregnant woman is evacuated from Mariupol Maternity Hospital No.3 in March 2022.
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My research shows how international and civil wars have significantly increased infant mortality rates around the world.
A kindergarten in Kharkiv, Ukraine, destroyed by Russian shelling.
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The deportation of children during war goes to the heart of important and far-reaching human rights conventions. But bringing perpetrators to justice will be a long and complex process.
Crime scene? Vladimir Putin visits Mariupol, which Russia captured in May 2022 after the deaths of thousands, including many civilians.
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The list of crimes for which Putin is considered complicit is long. The question is whether he can be held accountable.
Ukrainian troops salute the coffins of four Ukrainian fighters of the sabotage group Bratstvo (Brotherhood) who died during a mission in Bryansk Oblast in Russia.
EPA-EFE/Oleg Petrasuk
‘False flag’ operations are as old as war itself – and are legal under the rules of war.
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Why the UN Refugee Convention should be updated to protect climate migrants.