In his announcement of May 20, 2024, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) justified the request for arrest warrants targeting both Hamas officials and Israeli leaders by the need for an impartial application of the law of armed conflict. If international law of armed conflict is to be applied equally, the prosecutor's dual accusation risks solidifying a falsely symmetrical image of the situation in Palestine, explains Rafaëlle Maison, professor of international law at Paris-Saclay University and member of JURDI, for Orient XXI.
R. Maison, Hamas/Israel, the misleading equivalences of the International Criminal Court, Orient XXI, June 5, 2024
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