A leading member of Israel’s legal team in the genocide case brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has publicly condemned the Israeli military’s latest operation in Gaza as a “manifest war crime”. Professor Eyal Benvenisti, a prominent international law expert and director of the Lauterpacht Centre at Cambridge University, co-authored a scathing legal opinion warning that Israel’s policy of forcibly “concentrating and moving” Gaza’s population amounts to a grave breach of international law. Published on 8 July in Haaretz, the opinion, co-written with legal philosopher Professor Chaim Gans, denounces the IDF’s current campaign, dubbed Operation “Gideon’s Chariots”, as a clear case of forcible population transfer, a crime prohibited under the Fourth Geneva Convention and classified … Continue reading Israeli committing ‘manifest war crime’ says legal scholar who defended Tel Aviv at ICJ genocide case