Tag international law

Israel: The Child as Evidence

A new report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Gaza focuses not only on the number of children killed, but on their significance as evidence. Drawing on documented cases, medical findings, identified military units and public statements, this analysis examines the Commission’s argument that the treatment of Palestinian children reveals an alleged genocidal intent. It also addresses the report’s limitations, Israel’s rebuttal and the absence of a final judicial ruling - before turning to Berlin, where the German government lifted arms-export restrictions on the grounds of a ceasefire during which children continued to be killed.

The No-Strike List That Failed Four Times

Four strikes, four decades, four civilian targets: an air-raid shelter in Baghdad, the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, a hospital in Kunduz and a girls’ school in Minab. This dossier shows that behind the official explanations of “outdated data,” “wrong maps” and “human error” lies a recurring structural failure: protective mechanisms designed to shield civilian sites from attack collapse precisely when they are needed most. The No-Strike List becomes a symbol of modern warfare in which technical precision increases, while accountability disappears.

The Indispensable Third Party

Germany is facing proceedings before the International Court of Justice in the case Nicaragua v. Germany, accused of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention and the Geneva Conventions through arms exports to Israel and the temporary suspension of UNRWA funding. Yet Berlin is not primarily defending the substance of the allegations, but relying on jurisdictional objections, procedural timing and the argument that Israel is an “indispensable third party.” This analysis shows how a technical legal dispute becomes a political test case: does the rules-based order still apply when it is invoked against Western states themselves - or does it end where its own architects are called to account?

Israel – The Finding: Genocide

What happens when the charge of genocide is no longer raised by activists or political rhetoric, but by mandated UN bodies, legal methodology and a converging evidentiary record? This article reconstructs the findings on Gaza, the industrial and technological machinery behind them, the role of Western states, and the decisive gap between documentation and consequence. From the UN Commission’s legal assessment to Francesca Albanese’s reports, from domicide and humanitarian obstruction to arms flows, corporate complicity and diplomatic shielding, the picture that emerges is not merely an accusation. It is a documented finding - and its lack of enforcement may be the most damning fact of all.

Israel – The Finding: Genocide

What happens when the charge of genocide is no longer raised by activists or political rhetoric, but by mandated UN bodies, legal methodology and a converging evidentiary record? This article reconstructs the findings on Gaza, the industrial and technological machinery behind them, the role of Western states, and the decisive gap between documentation and consequence. From the UN Commission’s legal assessment to Francesca Albanese’s reports, from domicide and humanitarian obstruction to arms flows, corporate complicity and diplomatic shielding, the picture that emerges is not merely an accusation. It is a documented finding - and its lack of enforcement may be the most damning fact of all.

Israel: What the UN Committee against Torture Found – Part 2

On 22 December 2025, the UN Committee against Torture published its concluding observations on Israel's sixth periodic review. What they contain is stronger than most reports suggest: the Committee sees evidence pointing to a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture - and references findings that name war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the actus reus of genocide.

Israel – Agronomic Warfare

On February 1, 2026, Israeli forces instructed UN peacekeepers to take cover - then military aircraft spent nine hours spraying glyphosate at 20 to 30 times normal agricultural concentrations over civilian farmland in southern Lebanon. The same pattern, the same aircraft, the same substances: documented in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza over more than a decade. What bombs begin, herbicides complete. No ceasefire detoxifies a field.

GAZA-Made in the USA – Part 2 – The End of Accountability

Part two shifts the focus from the rubble in Gaza to the centers of power in Washington and Berlin. It shows that the central question is not only which weapons were delivered, but why the political and legal mechanisms of control failed - or were deliberately dismantled. From National Security Memorandum 20 to the Leahy Law and the Arms Export Control Act, a picture emerges of a system in which the relevant rules do exist, yet are not enforced when it matters most. The removal of reporting obligations, the bypassing of congressional scrutiny, and the institutional silence of the responsible agencies do not merely suggest bureaucratic failure, but a possible transition into a new phase: the end of accountability.

GAZA-Made in the USA – Part 1

American bombs in Gaza are not an abstract accusation, not an indirect implication, and not merely a political narrative - they are identifiable, traceable, and documented in the rubble itself. A forensic investigation of 79 geolocated strikes reveals which US-made weapon systems were used, where they hit, which civilian sites they struck, and how many people were killed. Schools, homes, medical facilities, mosques: this text reconstructs the material chain of evidence behind a war reality that is often politically softened but becomes increasingly difficult to deny on a technical level. What emerges is not the full picture of the war, but the verifiable lower bound of what can be publicly proven - and that is precisely what makes it explosive.

Iran Insight – Commentary: What Happens When Bushehr Burns

Three projectiles have struck the premises of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. Nine days apart. No reactor damage, officials say. Not yet. This article explains what happens when the next one hits - and why it doesn't even need to strike the reactor directly. 62 million people, no drinking water, a radioactive sea, three nuclear sites simultaneously. This is not a scenario. This is physics.