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A protective force must be deployed to occupied Palestine

States have the duty to stop genocide. Sending a peacekeeping force to Gaza and the West Bank would fulfil it.

UN vehicles and other cars wait to cross through a checkpoint run by U.S. and Egyptian security contractors after Israeli forces withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor, allowing people to travel in both directions between southern and northern Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, near Gaza City, February 9, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Polio and Israel’s attrition genocide in Gaza

The re-emergence of polio in Gaza is yet another sign of Israel’s genocidal strategies at work.

A displaced Palestinian mother, Wafaa Abdelhadi, walks past the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike as she returns to her shelter with her daughters Lynn and Roueida, after they got vaccinated against polio, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip September 1, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Like Sri Lanka once did, Israel has turned ‘safe zones’ into killing fields

But there is one important difference between the two cases: The genocide in Gaza is not taking place in the dark.

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike in Rafah

Safe zones: Israel’s technologies of genocide

Designating safe areas in Gaza allows the Israeli army to carry out war crimes more efficiently and then to deny them.

Palestinians evacuate from a site hit by an Israeli bombardment on Rafah,

The UN must not adopt the IHRA definition

This would be detrimental not only to United Nations agencies, but also to the global human rights regime.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan addresses the United Nations Security Council as the Council meets to discuss the issue of Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., February 20, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Why we need to challenge Russia’s human shields narrative

The human shield accusation has become an increasingly common defence when states act immorally.

Rescue workers evacuate an elderly woman among destroyed buildings in Irpin

The fallacy of Israel’s human shields claims in Gaza

Desperately trying to justify the killing of unarmed protesters, Israel once again uses its ‘human shields’ mantra.

Razan al-Najjar

How the US joined Saudi and Israeli warmongering

Why is the US Congress sanctioning Hezbollah over “human shields” now?

A U.N peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) stands near a poster depicting Lebanon''s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Adaisseh in southern Lebanon

Israel’s Regularisation Law: Colonialism under stress

What is Israeli settler trauma and will a new law legalising illegal settlements “cure” it?

2005 Gaza settlement evacuation

The human shields of Mosul

How the international coalition is framing civilians in Iraq as ISIL’s human shields.

Iraqi firefighters look for bodies buried under the rubble, of civilians who were killed after an air strike against Islamic State triggered a massive explosion in Mosul