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Why is Israel blocking UNRWA? The two Knesset laws and Israel’s own intelligence
The Knesset voted 92 to 10 in 2024 to bar UNRWA. What its sponsors said, what Israel counts, what UN inquiries found, and where the laws reach.
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67 results for “Humanitarian Law”
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Who disarms first in Gaza, and who withdraws when? What Resolution 2803 says
Resolution 2803 (2025) endorsed a 20-point plan tying staged Israeli withdrawal to conditions and decommissioning to monitors it never names.
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Have errors been found in Gaza’s death lists? The ministry’s own corrections, record by record
What the Gaza ministry’s own corrections, list fields and a peer-reviewed Lancet estimate record about errors in its published fatality lists.
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Who accuses Israel of genocide? The court case, the states and Israel’s reply
One state has filed a genocide case against Israel; others use the word in motions, speeches and scholarship. The dated record, with Israel’s own counts.
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What are Israel’s war aims? The government’s own words and counts
Israel’s own documents name two Gaza war aims: the hostages and Hamas’s military capacity. Its counts, aid record and Knesset vote add detail.
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Is support for Israel debated in Congress? The roll calls and the polls
Four recorded votes on Israel security assistance, 2021 to 2024, the statutes that condition US transfers, and how voters answer the same question.
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Why is the Gaza blockade called collective punishment? Who says it, and Israel’s own record
COGAT’s own record shows a 2 March to 19 May 2025 nil-entry period; Israel’s Supreme Court tied the term to disproportionate use in 2014.
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Which Countries Recognize Israel’s Actions in Gaza as Genocide? Reading the Court Filing, the Recorded Votes and the Dated Statements
One state has filed a genocide claim against Israel at the World Court. Others used the word in speeches and motions; no register counts recognitions.
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Is Israel Cutting Off Electricity and Reimposing Siege on Gaza During the Ceasefire? Reading the Dated Orders, the Endorsed Instrument and Each Party’s Own Counts
Israel’s energy minister halted the last grid line on 9 March 2025, and Israel’s own aid portal records zero entry from 2 March to 19 May 2025.
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How Does Palestinian Indigeneity Relate to the Claim for Liberation and Sovereignty?
Three UN resolutions across 22 years attach self-determination and statehood to the Palestinian people. None uses the treaty category of indigeneity.
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Why Is Israel’s Occupation Called the Longest in Modern History? Reading the 1967 Orders, the Interim Agreement and Israel’s Own Court Record
The occupation dates to June 1967, 59 years by 2026. What the military orders, Oslo II and Israel’s own court record show about its length.
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Is the Destruction of Cultural Heritage by Israel a War Crime? Reading the Treaty Elements, the Verified Site Inventory and the Prosecution Record
UNESCO has verified damage to 164 heritage sites in Gaza as of March 2026. What the treaty elements require, and what has actually been charged and tried.
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Does Hamas Fight From Civilian Sites, as the IDF Says in Answer to NAZA? What Israel’s Own Records Show
Israel’s own records back the IDF’s answer to NAZA with a map and cases, not a count. What they show about Hamas and civilian sites.
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Did the IDF Strike Neighborhoods It Knew Were Still Populated? What Its Own Sector Map Shows
The IDF kept a 630-sector map of who stayed in Gaza. What it, Israel’s warning counts and IDF footage show about NAZA’s claim on populated areas.
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NAZA Says Civilian Deaths Were Built Into Strike Approvals. What Do the IDF’s Targeting Records Show?
What an IDF targeting presentation and 18 clips of IDF strike footage show about the documentary NAZA’s claim that civilian deaths were built into approvals.
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Does “Occupation” Still Describe Israel? What the Word Designates, the Test It Turns On, and What Each Register Counts
The term attaches to named parcels of territory, not to a state. What the instruments, Israel’s own court record and each population register show.
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Does Length of Residence Decide Whether an Expulsion Is Lawful? Reading the Treaty Clauses, the Land Codes and the Compensation File
The instruments governing forced displacement carry no term of years. Where duration is legally operative, it is in property law.
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Is the United States Complicit in Israeli War Crimes? What the Transfer Statutes and the Complicity Article Actually Require
Article 16 sets two cumulative conditions for complicity. United States arms law uses neither, and names international humanitarian law nowhere.
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What Do Other States Owe Over the Occupation? Reading the Codification Text, the Geneva Sentence and the Export Statutes
The duty not to recognize or assist is stated outright in a text never opened for signature. What the treaty sentence and the export statutes actually say.
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Does a Claim of Self-Defence Answer a Genocide Charge? Reading the Convention Text, the Rome Statute Grounds and the Charter Article
The 1948 Genocide Convention runs to 19 articles and none states a defence. Where self-defence sits instead, and which question each instrument answers.
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What Do UN Reports Find About Children in Gaza? Reading the Documents Named, the Peer-Reviewed Analyses and Where Each Figure Was Produced
Naming the documents behind “UN reports say” on children in Gaza: 68.2% of 475 schools damaged in 46 days, and where each relayed figure was produced.
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Does the Gaza Health Ministry Undercount or Overcount Deaths? Reading the Registry’s Two Channels and the One Test Run Against It
One peer-reviewed test estimated 64,260 traumatic-injury deaths against 37,877 reported; a research institute puts a civilian ceiling at 41,000.
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Has Israel Violated the Gaza Ceasefire Agreement? Reading the Resolution, the Mandated Report and Each Party’s Own Count
Security Council resolution 2803 uses the word violation zero times. What the one mandated report and each party’s own count actually record.
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Does Israel Prevent Palestinians in Gaza From Accessing Humanitarian Aid? Reading the Enacted Standard, the Entry Counts and the Household Enumeration
US law has barred assistance to governments that restrict humanitarian aid since 1996. What the entry counts and the site enumeration each measured.
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What Would a Palestinian State Require to Function? Reading the Registers, Censuses and Audits
What the registers, censuses, audits and court files record about the machinery a Palestinian state would run on, and where the record holds nothing.
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Is Settler Colonialism in the West Bank as Bad as People Say? Reading the Official Registers, the Planning Data and the Demolition Counts
Israel’s own register, EU planning and demolition data, the two totals that diverge by 18,518 units, and where the label is disputed but the counts are not.
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Is Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territories Related to Its Opposition to Statehood? Reading the Recorded Votes, the Treaty Text and Each Party’s Own Statements
Israel’s parliament voted 68 to 9 against Palestinian statehood in July 2024. What the recorded votes and the law of occupation each hold.
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Is Anti-Zionism a Fig Leaf for Antisemitism? Reading the Coded Corpora, the Incident Records and the Survey Measurements
26.9% of UK media comments on the May 2021 escalation were coded antisemitic. What the corpora, incident records and surveys measure.
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Who Is the Aggressor in the Israel-Palestine Conflict? Reading the Definition, the Deciding Forum and Each Party’s Own Counts
Aggression is a defined legal term with one deciding forum. What the 1974 definition, the recorded votes and each party’s own counts record.
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Who Is Preventing Peace? Reading the Parties’ Own Conditions, the Recorded Votes and the Conflict Datasets
No dataset ranks who blocks peace. What the record holds: each party’s stated conditions, a 2018 Basic Law, a 2021 ruling and four recorded votes.
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Why Is the IDF Called the Israeli Occupation Forces? Reading the Founding Order, Israel’s Own Record and the Measured Corpora
The army was named by order of Israel’s Provisional Government on 26 May 1948. What the legal record, the army’s own code and coded corpora show.
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Why Are Israeli Settlements Considered Illegal Under International Law? Reading the Treaty Clause, the Recorded Vote and Israel’s Own Court Record
The illegality finding traces to one sentence of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention. What the clause says, and where the reading is disputed.
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Were Children in Gaza Shot in Areas Designated as Safe? Reading the Compiled Cases, the Treaty Text and Each Party’s Own Counts
A BBC investigation compiled 168 cases of children shot in Gaza, 95 in the head or chest. What the records establish and what they do not.
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How Have the October 7 Atrocities Been Justified? Reading the Catalogued Frames, the Party’s Own Text and the Treaty Clauses
Three catalogued denial categories, Hamas’s own January 2024 text, the treaty clauses that answer them, and the monitoring counts that coincided.
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Is Blocking Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Collective Punishment? Reading the Treaty Text, the Determinations Issued and Each Party’s Own Counts
Four named bodies apply the term and no tribunal has entered the finding. What Article 33, the relief-passage rules and each party’s counts record.
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Has Zionism Resulted in Palestinian Dispossession and Occupation? Reading the Archives, the Enacted Texts and the Recorded Votes
Roughly 700,000 Palestinians were displaced in 1947 to 1949, per Morris’s archival history. What the archives, statutes and recorded votes hold.
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Which Humanitarian Organizations Have Documented Israeli War Crimes? Reading the Published Findings and the Accountability Counts
Four NGOs and two UN mandate bodies carry the war-crimes findings on Gaza; Israel’s own prosecutors report 74 investigations from 1,000+ referrals.
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What Evidence Is There of Israel Committing War Crimes? Reading the Findings Issued, the Party Counts and the Court Record
Israel’s military prosecutors report 74 criminal investigations; the wider war-crimes record is incident-level, dated and largely unadjudicated.
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Are Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property Systematic? Reading the Findings Issued, the Treaty Standard and Israel’s Own Investigation Counts
Four named bodies have issued findings of systematic attacks since 2023. What the treaty standard requires, and what Israel’s own investigation counts record.
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Is There a Policy of Starvation in Gaza? Reading the Treaty Standard, the Determinations Issued and Each Party’s Own Counts
No court has ruled on starvation as a method of war in Gaza. What the treaty text, the famine classification and Israel’s own aid counts record.
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Is Israel Carrying Out a Deliberate Campaign of Starvation in Gaza? Reading the Determinations, the Treaty Standard and Each Party’s Own Counts
Four bodies issued deliberate-starvation determinations from 2023 to 2025; the judicial record reaches only reasonable grounds. What each figure measures.
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Is Israel Using Starvation as a Weapon Against Children in Gaza? Reading the Determinations Issued, the Treaty Standard and Each Party’s Own Counts
Named determinations, WHO screening figures, the Rome Statute’s intent standard and each party’s own published counts on child hunger in Gaza.
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Does the Blockade Exacerbate the Gaza Genocide? Reading the Deprivation Figures, the Convention Text and Each Party’s Own Counts
Deprivation figures, the 1948 Convention text, court orders and each party’s own aid counts on whether restrictions worsened conditions in Gaza.
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What Is the Impact of Israeli Military Raids on Palestinian Civilians? Reading the Counts Each Party Publishes
The Gaza Ministry of Health counted 274 killed in one 2024 raid; Israel’s military reports 74 investigations opened. What each record measures.
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What Are the Characteristics of the System Described as “Israeli Apartheid”? Reading the Named Enumerations, the Treaty Text and the Official Counts
Two documents enumerate four and five characteristics. What the treaty definition, the census counts and Israel’s own statistics record about each.
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Why Is Israel Seen as the Aggressor? Reading the Polls, the Party Counts and the Framing Studies
Gallup’s sympathies reading fell from 63% in 2010 to 46% in 2025. Which reasons offered for the shift carry a dated measurement, and which do not.
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Which Historical Incidents Are Cited as Israeli War Crimes? Reading the Compilations, the Court Records and the Commissions of Inquiry
Eight incidents recur across the published compilations, from April 1948 to October 2023. One produced a criminal conviction in an Israeli court.
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Which Historical Events Are Cited in Genocide Allegations Against Israel? Reading the Recorded Vote, the Archives and Each Party’s Own Counts
Six events recur in the allegations. What the 1982 recorded vote, the 1948 archives and each party’s own published counts state, dated.
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What Is the Connection Between the Genocide Convention and the Situation in Gaza? Reading the Treaty Text, the Procedural Record and Each Party’s Own Counts
The 1948 Genocide Convention supplies the definition, the duty and the clause behind the Gaza case. What the record holds, article by article, dated.
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What Is the Evidence Behind the Genocide Allegations in Gaza? Reading the Convention Text, the Standards Applied and Each Party’s Own Counts
Four bodies published genocide findings on Gaza between 2024 and 2025. What each documented, which standard it applied, and what Israel published.
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Is the Gaza Blockade a Violation of Human Dignity? Reading the Assessments Issued, the Legal Standards and Each Party’s Own Counts
The dignity phrasing traces to one 2008 humanitarian assessment. What the published characterizations, the treaty text and each party’s counts hold.
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Has Israel Continued to Use Starvation as a Weapon of War in Gaza? Reading the Determinations Issued and Each Party’s Own Counts
Five dated determinations from 2023 to 2025, the standard each one applied, and the counts Israel and Gaza health officials each publish.
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Does the Gaza Conflict Encompass Mass Killings and Deliberate Starvation? What Each Body Counted
A Lancet Global Health survey estimated 75,200 violent deaths in Gaza to January 2025; the health ministry has recorded 460 malnutrition deaths.
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Is Israel Carrying Out a Genocide in Gaza? Reading the Convention Text, the Findings Issued and the Counts Each Party Publishes
The 1948 Convention sets two elements, a UN commission found four of five acts in 2025, and no court has ruled on the merits.
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What Pattern of Conduct Indicates Genocidal Intent in Gaza? Reading the Convention Text, the Findings and Israel’s Own Counts
The 1948 Genocide Convention lists five acts. Which bodies say the Gaza pattern meets that standard, and what Israel’s own records count.
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Is Israel Carrying Out Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza? Reading the Standard, the Findings Issued and the Counts Each Party Publishes
No court has ruled. What the issued findings say, what the legal standard requires, and what the official population and military counts record.
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Is Israel Deliberately Targeting Palestinian Civilians? Reading the Findings Issued, the Directives and Israel’s Own Investigation Counts
Named bodies allege direct attacks on civilians. Israel’s military advocate reports 74 criminal investigations from over 1,000 referred incidents.
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Is Israel Committing War Crimes in Gaza? What the Legal Record and the Published Counts Hold
No court has entered a verdict. What the warrants, the treaty standards, the named findings and the parties’ own counts record.
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Did Israel Expel Palestinians From Their Land? Reading the Archives, the Founding Text and the 1948 Votes
Roughly 700,000 Palestinians were displaced in 1948. What the archives, Israel’s founding declaration and the recorded UN votes document.
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Was the Gaza Campaign Unrestrained Against an Undefended Population? Reading the Counts Each Party Publishes
Israel’s own 2014 classification, an internal military database, a Lancet household survey and the Gaza health ministry tally, set side by side.
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What Will Happen to Civilians in Gaza? Reading the Counts Each Body Publishes
Gaza’s health ministry recorded 236,505 dead and injured by October 2025. What each count measures, and what each party publishes.
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Does Amnesty International Describe Israel’s Actions as Genocide and Apartheid? Reading the Published Documents and the Record Around Them
Two dated documents, one internal rejection, a named legal disagreement over intent, and the counts each party publishes.
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What Role Does Settler Violence Play in Taking Palestinian Land? Reading the Official Records and the Mapped Counts
The State Department recorded 1,277 settler-violence incidents in 2023 and 1,442 Palestinians displaced. What each record and mapping actually counts.
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Does Prior Presence Justify Forced Removal? Reading the Conventions, the Archives and the 1947 Vote
Three instruments, two archive-based histories and one recorded vote: what the texts and counts behind the 1948 displacement actually say.
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Is Settler Expansion Part of a Long-Term Strategy to Empty the West Bank of Palestinians?
The Palestinian census counted 2,881,687 West Bank residents in 2017. What the population record, Israel’s own state reviews and its court rulings document.
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What Do Israel’s Own Reviews and Court Records Say About Settler Outposts?
The 2005 Sasson Report, the 2012 Levy Report, a 2016 High Court order and the UN inquiry: what each document records about outposts and enforcement.
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How Gaza-War Headlines Name the Agent of Violence
A corpus study of 1,976 Gaza-war headlines: only 19% depict a violent act, and when one names an actor it is Israel 80% of the time and no one 23%.