New legal research on Gaza war urges immediate action

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Some international law scholars are pointing out that current international humanitarian law is deficient in that it deals mostly with assessment, prosecution and punishment at the end of hostilities and does not deal very well with preventing crimes against humanity and genocide, thus they urge immediate action in Gaza. Here is the actual paper from Dannenbaum and Dill.

They argue that, when applying the right threshold, Israel is in violation of international humanitarian law and that outside countries should suspend material assistance such as selling weapons.