It is no longer possible to claim international law is supreme and applies equally to everyone.
![A Palestinian man covered in dust holds the hand of a weeping child following an Israeli airstrike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023 [Mohammed Abed/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/33YH9UJ-highres-1697539980.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Wesam Ahmad is a Palestinian human rights advocate at Al-Haq NGO in Ramallah, Palestine
It is no longer possible to claim international law is supreme and applies equally to everyone.
![A Palestinian man covered in dust holds the hand of a weeping child following an Israeli airstrike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023 [Mohammed Abed/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/33YH9UJ-highres-1697539980.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The international legal regime was meant to help end colonialism. Its failure in Palestine threatens its very existence.
