Forwarded from 🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine
🇵🇸 Self-defence in Israel and Palestine: Unsuspending Disbelief – Research Society of International Law
In this short post, we focus on a distinct but interrelated question, namely whether Israel’s use of force against Gaza could be described as self-defence at all. Our answer is in the negative.
One preliminary comment is necessary: recently Marko Milanovic raised the question whether the prohibition of the use of force is applicable at all in the relationship between Gaza and Israel.
The question refers to the view that if Palestine is not a state with Gaza as part of its territory, the prohibition of the use of force would not apply to Gaza. We come to this question as critical legal scholars who do not wish to romanticise the concept of statehood in international law.
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #InternationalLaw #RSIL #SelfDefence #Occupation #Israel
28/11/2023
In this short post, we focus on a distinct but interrelated question, namely whether Israel’s use of force against Gaza could be described as self-defence at all. Our answer is in the negative.
One preliminary comment is necessary: recently Marko Milanovic raised the question whether the prohibition of the use of force is applicable at all in the relationship between Gaza and Israel.
The question refers to the view that if Palestine is not a state with Gaza as part of its territory, the prohibition of the use of force would not apply to Gaza. We come to this question as critical legal scholars who do not wish to romanticise the concept of statehood in international law.
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #InternationalLaw #RSIL #SelfDefence #Occupation #Israel
28/11/2023