European Council on Foreign Relations – Ein Beitrag von Muhammad Shehada (Visiting Fellow)
Gazas Zukunft?
Kategorie: Vereinte Nationen
Phase Two in Gaza?
NEW EPISODE Hold the Fire FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard Atwood speaks with Crisis Group experts Amjad Iraqi, Mairav Zonszein and Max Rodenbeck about President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace and its implications for Gaza. They unpack the structure of the board’s different layers, how Palestinians are reacting to the new Palestinian technocratic Gaza committee and what that committee will do. They look at conditions on the ground in Gaza amid frequent ceasefire violations and Hamas’s continued hold of parts of the strip. They also assess the obstacles to moving the peace plan forward, including working out agreement on the sequencing of Hamas decommissioning weapons, on one hand, and Israeli withdrawing troops and letting in reconstruction aid on the other, as well as the still-uncertain prospects for an international stabilisation force in the strip.
Vom Zeitgeist und von Davos
Am / Vom Ende einer regelbasierten Weltordung (Wenn sie je begonnen hat)
Ein lesenswerter Beitrag des kanadischen Miniterpräsidenten Mark Carney in Davos
Fakten schaffen
Internationaler Strafgerichtshof: Israelischer Einspruch zurückgewiesen
Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) hat einen israelischen Antrag auf Einstellung seiner Ermittlungen zum Gaza-Krieg abgelehnt und die Gültigkeit der Haftbefehle gegen Premierminister Benjamin Netanjahu und den ehemaligen Verteidigungsminister Yoav Gallant bestätigt.
Die Ermittlungen erstrecken sich auch auf die Ereignisse nach dem Hamas-Angriff vom 7. Oktober 2023. Israel lehnt jedoch die Zuständigkeit des IStGH ab und bestreitet, Kriegsverbrechen begangen zu haben, und behauptet, daß seine Kampagne im Gazastreifen darauf abziele, die Hamas auszuschalten.
Der IStGH hatte ursprünglich auch gegen den Hamas-Führer einen Haftbefehl erlassen, der jedoch nach Berichten über seinen Tod aufgehoben wurde. Die aktuelle Entscheidung betrifft nur einen von mehreren israelischen Einsprüchen. Wann der IStGH über die weiteren entscheidet, ist noch unklar.
Haaretz | Juristnews | ICC (Text der Entscheidung)
Fernes Unrecht – Fremdes Leid
Von der Durchsetzbarkeit internationalen Rechts
Besprechung des Werkes von Gerd Henkel auf hsozkult durch Daniel Stahl
Überall!
Please join us at the 13th edition of the Geneva PeaceTalks!
Marking the International Day of Peace, the 2025 Geneva PeaceTalks will take place on Wednesday, 10 September, from 3-5 PM CEST in Room XVII at the Palais des Nations and livestreamed online.
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Under the theme “Peace is Possible,” this year’s event brings together an extraordinary group of individuals from around the world, from diplomats, peacebuilders, community leaders, and artists, all united in the belief that peace is possible. By sharing personal lived experiences, they will illuminate that peace is not only necessary, but achievable through increasing understanding, respect, and justice in our daily lives.
This year’s Geneva PeaceTalks will feature the following speakers:
Her Excellency Lolwah bint Rashid bin Mohammed Al Khater, Minister of Education and Higher Education in Qatar
Jagan Chapagain, Secretary General and CEO, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Caroline Vuillemin, Director-General of Fondation Hirondelle
Elizabeth Laskar and Miranda Shaw, Secretary and Treasurer of Creators of Peace International
Guila Clara Kessous, UNESCO Artist for Peace
Her Excellency Hind Aboud Kabawat, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Transitional Government in Syria & Interpeace Governing Board Member
Frank Kayitare, Rwanda Country Representative for Interpeace
Musical performances by:
‚Dr Bożena Schmid-Adamczyk, Internationally renowned pianist and musicologist and Adrien Philipp, Clarinetist
The event will also feature: Welcome message from the 13th Director-General of the UN in Geneva, Tatiana Valovaya. Closing remarks by President & CEO of Interpeace, Itonde Kakoma Master of Ceremony, Sarah Noble, Curator of PeaceTalks
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire. Never has our world needed peace more.
The Geneva PeaceTalks are brought to you by the United Nations Office at Geneva, Interpeace, the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, the Swiss Government and in partnership with the City and Canton of Geneva, Mirabaud, Caux Initiatives of Change, UNESCO Artists for Peace and Hinduja Foundation.
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Silence is Complicity
Gemeinsame Erklärung der humanitären Beauftragten der Vereinten Nationen in der Nahostregion
Stand Up, Speak Out, Protect the Humanitarian Space
Joint Statement by UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinators in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Syria, Yemen and Lebanon
One year ago, we called on those in power to end attacks against humanitarian workers and aid operations. Release all those arbitrarily detained. Safeguard the humanitarian space in the Middle East. That call remains unanswered.
Across the region, civilians, including humanitarian workers, have already endured an unbearable toll of decades of conflict and protracted crises. They are being killed, injured, and attacked in shocking numbers. Violations of international humanitarian law are at an unprecedented level, and impunity has become the norm.
The world is failing humanitarian workers and the people they serve. Since August 2024, at least 446 aid workers were killed, wounded, kidnapped or detained in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. This brings the total number since August 2023 to at least 841 affected workers, including 584 killed, 215 wounded, 38 detained, and 4 kidnapped.
The assault on humanitarian space now includes moves to dismantle multilateral norms, undermine UN‑mandated bodies, and defund institutions tasked with protection and justice.
Even speaking out has become a liability, risking humanitarian access and triggering political retaliation.
Justice has failed for serious violations, whether committed by the same actors or by others emboldened by their impunity. The climate of permissiveness is politically indefensible and morally intolerable. There can be no exceptions to the rules of war. All parties must comply with international humanitarian law and be held accountable.
When we protect humanitarian workers, we are not only protecting the people they serve in the Middle East. We are protecting civilians everywhere, the international system, and the principles that underpin our collective dignity and humanity.
Humanitarians are not giving up, neither should the world.
This World Humanitarian Day, we renew our call—louder, sharper, uncompromising: Respect international humanitarian and human rights laws. Protect those who protect humanity. End impunity or be complicit. The world is watching. #ActForHumanity. Now.
Signatories
Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and Officer-In-Charge Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Mr. Adam Abdelmoula, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria
Mr. Julien Harneis, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen
Mr. Imran Riza, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon
Statement on Gaza
| By Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator |
As the world is witnessing, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is devastating. One in three people in Gaza hasn’t eaten for days. People are being shot just trying to get food to feed their families. Children are wasting away. This is what we face on the ground right now.
We welcome Israel’s decision to support a one-week scale-up of aid, including lifting customs barriers on food, medicine and fuel from Egypt and the reported designation of secure routes for UN humanitarian convoys. Some movement restrictions appear to have been eased today, with initial reports indicating that over 100 truckloads were collected.
This is progress, but vast amounts of aid are needed to stave off famine and a catastrophic health crisis. Across the UN agencies and humanitarian community, we are mobilized to save as many lives as we can.
But we need sustained action, and fast, including quicker clearances for convoys going to the crossing and dispatching into Gaza; multiple trips per day to the crossings so we and our partners can pick up the cargo; safe routes that avoid crowded areas; and no more attacks on people gathering for food.
Fuel must be allowed in consistently and at the volume needed to keep aid operations running.
More than 59,000 people have reportedly been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023, nearly 18,000 of them children.
International humanitarian law must be respected. Aid must not be blocked, delayed or come under fire. Hostages must be released, immediately and unconditionally.
Ultimately of course we don’t just need a pause – we need a permanent ceasefire.
The world is calling for this lifesaving aid to get through. We won’t stop working for that.
Verfassungsblog.de
Jederzeit sterben gerade in Gaza, in Israel, im Iran (und an vielen anderen Orten der Welt) Menschen durch menschlich verursachte, von Menschen begonnene Konflikte (nicht wie die EKD-Ratsvorsitzende Bischöfin Kirsten Fehrs meint, der „Der gewaltsame Konflikt hat den Menschen .. Leid gebracht“) …
Angesichts des Leids ist es schwierig noch Worte zu finden, aber jedenfalls dürfen wir das Völkerrecht als Anker der Humanität nicht aufgeben …
Von zweierlei Maß spricht Prof. Dr. Mehrdad Payandeh, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Internationales Recht, Europarecht und Öffentliches Recht an der Bucerius Law School, in seinem Beitrag auf Verfassungsblog.de
