The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which was violently reignited following the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023, has practically pushed the Russia-Ukraine war off the geopolitical map.[1]« L’Ukraine menacée...
The intensity of fighting in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip does little to hide the differences in the way each conflict is being treated in politics, in the media and...
The involvement of States in the Ukrainian and Gazan conflicts – even through apparent refrainment – conditions humanitarian aid so much that it denies it any grounds, despite the legal...
Leonard Rubenstein’s extremely well-informed and well-argued article is an uncompromising discussion of some of the most serious breaches of and threats to international humanitarian law in these two conflicts. If...
Are these two existential wars causing their participants to take leave of their senses to such an extent that they have forgotten strategy and so are now just indulging in...
Throughout history, energy resources have been strategic targets during armed conflict. And electricity infrastructure has long been on the front line. This is especially true in Ukraine and Gaza, as...
Increasing numbers of territories around the world are falling outside the monopoly of the legitimate State. And the “zone of legitimate humanitarian applicability” is shrinking accordingly. The two authors build...
Local aid workers are frontline players, but also the first ones to be targeted by belligerents. Here, the author pays tribute to their work and underlines their difficulty to abide...
Should we give up on everything – on humanity and humanitarianism – just because today’s “Grand Inquisitors”, from Bucha and Izium to Be’eri, Khan Yunis and Rafah, have opted for...
“Inter arma caritas”: charity in the midst of war. However dated, the Red Cross motto still guides this organisation. There is another constant in war, one that goes back long...
In November 1947 the Partition Plan for Palestine was adopted, which would open the chapter of the Arab-Israeli wars. Seventy years later, the humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory...
Published on January 17, 2018 Editor’s note: the opinions expressed in this article solely reflect the authors’ views All pictures : © Jean-Baptiste Richardier U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent decision to...
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