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Items by Ahmad Ghouri
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Prosecution of dual-national Israeli soldiers
Since October last year, Israeli officials have not only made genocidal statements but have been acting upon them physically. As Palestinian health authorities report, Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 42,600 Palestinians so far, the majority women and children. The United Nations also states...
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Israel-Palestine: the calls for jihad and impending wave of foreign fighters
On 7 October, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement that is the de facto government of the Gaza Strip, launched an aerial and ground offensive on Israel. Mohammad Deif, the leader of the Hamas military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, condenamed the attack “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”. The movement said that its...
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All wars are bad for children
Russia took the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council on 1 April. The role is held by each of the member states in turn for one month, in English alphabetical order. This means that the Security Council is being led by a country whose president is subject to...
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The ICC’s selective approach to war crimes undermines its credibility
Given the slow and selective investigations of alleged war crimes in Palestine and Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court’s speedy warrant to put Russian President Vladimir Putin on trial for alleged crimes in Ukraine begs questions about it becoming a partisan institution. Based in The Hague, the ICC is an...
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When will the UN ask the USA and UK to pay reparations for their illegal invasion of Iraq?
Iraq paid a total of $52.4 billion in war reparations that it owed for Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Iraq was compelled to make this payment when the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 687 in April 1991 finding that “Iraq is liable under international law for any...
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Endless disregard of the non-intervention principle by the United States
Non-intervention principle in international law Article 2.7 of the United Nations (UN) Charter provides that “Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state …” In 1965, the UN General Assembly adopted Declaration on...