The UXO that injured these children is a vestige of the IDF’s extensive Gaza home demolitions—a fuse for one of the US-made M15 mines IDF engineers use for this task.

If troops stack 5 M15s, they only need the fuse for 1, and often discard the others.
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Breaking‼️Ousman Sonko, pillar of Yahya Jammeh’s brutal #Gambia regime, CONVICTED of homicide, torture & false imprisonment as crimes against humanity in Swiss court . Rape charges dropped . A major step on the long road to justice for Jammeh’s victims. 🧵

🚨BREAKING: Ousman Sonko, former #Gambian Interior Minister under Yahya Jammeh, has been sentenced by the #Swiss Federal Criminal Court to 20 years in prison for #crimesagainsthumanity .

Brammertz and team “said they hardly paused to mark the moment, but instead moved straight on to discussing how to help Rwanda’s prosecutor general track down the genocidaires still at large”

Have the IDF become addicted to explosions? Investigation reveals extent of demolitions carried out across Gaza

@aoav covers excellent reporting by Bellingcat on the IDF's seeming compulsion to blow Gazan homes to dust

aoav.org.uk/2024/have-the-…

New report out on justice and accountability for #Syria - current status, gaps, obstacles, ways forward. Read more here 👇

Join our live podcast event on June 3 to discuss - with international lawyer and diplomat Benjamin Duerr , who has just written a book on the first Hague Peace Conferences - how the institutions of The Hague are shaping up for the 21C. 

Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/125-years-of…

Janet H. Anderson stephanie vandenberg @svdberg.bsky.social The Hague Humanity Hub Just Peace - Den Haag

Super interesting discussion of Asymmetrical Haircuts with
Emily Tripp, Rachel Taylor and Khalif Hasan, who explain the importance of and challenges to their work in #casualtyrecording at Airwars, Every Casualty and Omeria!

2/3 publiceerden ik & Brigitte Dekker Clingendael Institute in 2020 het rapport ‘China’s invloed op onderwijs in Nederland’, met dezelfde conclusies: China’s invloed leidt tot censuur, zelfcensuur, politieke monitoring, intimidatie.
clingendael.org/publication/ch…

Belangrijk rapport van Amnesty International Amnesty Internationalnl over ‘de lange arm van Beijing’ die Chinese studenten in het buitenland monitort en intimideert. Het gebeurde al toen ik in de jaren ‘80 studeerde in Leiden. Over de situatie in Nederland…1/2

ICYMI🎯

When conflict is inaccessible or ignored, it’s evidence from people on the ground that helps to show its scale ( #Gaza ). Counting individual casualties is also a call for action. Catch up with our new episode on the topic👇

asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/episo…

A heart rending account of the fighting in El Fasher by Zeinab M. Salih, one of the few brave journalists on the ground. #EyesOnDarfur #eyesonsudan

One of her patients was a 7-year-old boy with burns over 80% of his body.

'We're running out of pain medicine, running out of blood pressure medicine. So we cannot keep these people alive or comfortable. It's absolutely horrifying what we're seeing here.” npr.org/sections/goats…

'The many thousands of amputees, their wounds are breaking down. Their amputation stumps are breaking down. Their bones are exposed. They will then die of that if they're not treated.' npr.org/2024/05/09/125…

Mikita Zalatarou was just 16 when he was arrested in 2020 for protesting against the stolen elections.

Today, he turns 20 in prison. He has been beaten & is being denied medication.

Happy Birthday, Mikita! I hope that you, along with all Belarusians, will soon see freedom!

What counts as negligent or unlawful arms trade? How does industry work to prevent downstream damage? Which accountability mechanisms work?

Join the discussion *tomorrow* in the Hague TMC Asser Instituut: asser.nl/education-even…

Noteworthy Kenneth Roth cites the Charles Taylor precedent here for aid and abetting war crimes.

The US government itself has invoked that precedent in the 9/11 case at GTMO.

You need to think long and hard if you are facilitating arms transfers to Israel.

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“The unspoken danger is that, should he [Karim Khan ICC prosecutor] and others fail to curb the horrors, the law will collapse and there will be little left to hold onto.”