States have the duty to stop genocide. Sending a peacekeeping force to Gaza and the West Bank would fulfil it.


Dr Shahd Hammouri is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Kent and an international legal consultant. Her research is focused on war e... conomies and critical theory. She is the author of the forthcoming book 'Corporate War Profiteering and International Law'.
States have the duty to stop genocide. Sending a peacekeeping force to Gaza and the West Bank would fulfil it.

Israel’s impunity has brought us to a tipping point where the current international system is no longer viable.

Arms-exporting NATO members cannot overlook their international legal obligations by citing alliance commitments.

States have responsibility to act when international peace is threatened. Israel’s genocidal acts clearly do.

Israel’s ‘right to self-defence’ is wrongly evoked within the context of its occupation of Palestinian territories.
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