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103 Foreign Aff. 84 (2024)
War Unbound: Gaza, Ukraine, and the Breakdown of International Law

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           War Unbound




      Gaza,   Ukraine, and the Breakdown

               of  International Law

                   OONA   A. HATHAWAY










   Hamas's attack   on Israel and Israel's response to it have been
         a disaster for civilians. In its October 7 massacre, Hamas
         sought out unarmed Israeli civilians, including women,
children, and the elderly, killing close to 1,200 people and taking
around 240 hostages. Israel's subsequent air and ground campaign
in Gaza has, as of March 2024, killed more than 30,000 people, an
estimated two-thirds of whom were women and children. The Israeli
offensive has also displaced some two million people (more than 85
percent of the population of Gaza), left more than a million people
at risk of starvation, and damaged or destroyed some 150,000 civil-
ian buildings. Today, there is no functional hospital left in northern
Gaza. Hamas, Israel maintains, uses civilian structures as shields,
operating in them or in tunnels beneath them-perhaps precisely



OO NA A. HATHAWAY is Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International
Law at Yale Law School and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace.


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