Israel’s Account of Attack on Aid Convoy Raises Wider Legal Questions, Experts Say by Amanda Taub, NYTimes (reporting from London), April 8, 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/world/europe/world-central-kitchen-strike-israel-law.html . . . “In the case of doubt as to a convoy or person’s status, one is to presume civilian status,” said Tom Dannenbaum, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University who is an expert on humanitarian law. “And so, attacking in the context of doubt is itself a violation of international humanitarian law.”
Humanitarian aid workers and aid facilities are entitled to heightened protections, because they deliver relief to endangered civilians, said Janina Dill, a co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. . . . “There’s a pattern here of attacks against humanitarian assistance missions,” Dill said. At least 196 aid workers were killed in Gaza from October 2023 to late March, according to a statement by McGoldrick, the senior U.N. relief official. The Aid Worker Security Database, a U.S.A.I.D.-supported project that tracks attacks on aid workers around the world, listed the same total. “This pattern of attacks is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence,” Christopher Lockyear, the secretary general of Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organization with operations in Gaza, said at a news conference on Thursday. “Our movements are shared, coordinated and identified already. This is about impunity, a total disregard for the laws of war. And now it must become about accountability.” . . . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29836): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29836 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105409915/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
