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Weapons exports to Israel: "Unlawful arms export licences have likely been issued" | Qantara.de

6 days ago | qantara.de | Hannah El-Hitami |Amro Ali |Stefan Weidner |Claudia Mende

Weapons exports to Israel · 09.05.2025 Germany remains one of Israel's top arms suppliers, a situation likely to persist under Friedrich Merz. According to Lilian Löwenbrück from the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, politicians and manufacturers could face charges for complicity in crimes against international law. https://qantara.de/en/node/44376 Print Qantara: How significant is Germany's role in arming Israel?
Syria's missing detainees: "We did not expect so few had survived" | Qantara.de

1 month ago | qantara.de | Hannah El-Hitami |Andrea Backhaus |Julia Hahn |Anchal Vohra

Syria's missing detainees · 03.04.2025 The search for the missing is seen by many Syrians as crucial to rebuilding the nation. Mazin al-Balkhi of the International Commission on Missing Persons warns that the scale and arbitrary nature of the killings under Assad pose major challenges. https://qantara.de/en/node/44342 Print Between 130,000 and 200,000 Syrians are estimated to be missing. What happened to these people?
ICC arrest warrants: What the Netanyahu warrant tells us about international law | Qantara.de

Dec 19, 2024 | qantara.de | Hannah El-Hitami |Daniel Bax |Hanno Hauenstein |Elisa Rheinheimer

ICC arrest warrants · 19.12.2024 Arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders are putting international law to the test. Do Western states only support UN courts when it serves their interests? Can the "principle of universal jurisdiction" save international criminal justice?
Syrien-Demo in Berlin: Über eine Frau, die zum Zentrum der Freude wurde

Dec 9, 2024 | stern.de | Hannah El-Hitami

Fadwa Mahmoud lebt in Berlin und vermisst seit Jahren ihren Mann und ihren Sohn, die unter Assads Regime in Syrien verschwanden. Nun schöpft sie Hoffnung – und mit ihr tausende Demonstranten in Berlin. Fadwa Mahmoud ist eine kleine Frau Ende 60 mit kurzem grauen Haar und weichen Zügen. An diesem verregneten Dezembertag steht sie auf dem Oranienplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg, um sie herum rund 5000 demonstrierende Menschen. Fadwa Mahmoud ist so etwas wie das heimliche Zentrum der Freude.
Nathan Thrall's book "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama": What a bus accident can tell us about the occupation | Qantara.de

Sep 19, 2024 | qantara.de | Elizabeth Grenier |Marcia Lynx Qualey |Hannah El-Hitami

Nathan Thrall's book "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama" · 19.09.2024 At once empathic and analytic, Nathan Thrall’s “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” shines a light on life in Palestine under Israeli occupation. Highly recommended.
Emilia Roig: „Deutsche entscheiden, wer gute und wer schlechte Juden sind?“

Aug 5, 2024 | freitag.de | Hannah El-Hitami

Interview Die jüdische Politologin Emilia Roig äußert sich in der Debatte um den Gaza-Krieg explizit antizionistisch – und wird dafür kritisiert.
Le massacre de Tadamon en Syrie au cœur d'un nouveau procès en Allemagne

Jul 25, 2024 | justiceinfo.net | Hannah El-Hitami

Les vidéos du massacre de Tadamon en 2013, après avoir été largement diffusées sur les réseaux sociaux, sont utilisées comme preuves dans le dernier procès de compétence universelle de l'Allemagne. Le nom du quartier, Tadamon, est devenu depuis synonyme de la terreur arbitraire infligée par le régime Assad à sa population.
The Tadamon massacre in Syria at the heart of a new trial in Germany

Jul 25, 2024 | justiceinfo.net | Hannah El-Hitami

Two years ago, one of the most shocking pieces of visual evidence of the Syrian regime’s atrocities was widely circulated: a collection of videos that show a massacre of civilians in Damascus in April 2013. The name of the neighborhood, Tadamon, has since become a synonym for the arbitrary terror inflicted by the Assad regime against its population.
L'Allemagne teste et réforme sa loi sur les crimes internationaux

Jul 8, 2024 | justiceinfo.net | Hannah El-Hitami

Ces quatre dernières années, la justice allemande a permis un certain nombre de premières historiques dans le domaine de la compétence universelle : le premier procès traitant de la torture pratiquée par l'État syrien en tant que crime contre l'humanité, le premier procès condamnant le groupe État islamique (EI) pour génocide contre les Yézidis en Irak, et le premier procès jugeant un membre de l'escadron de la mort gambien, les "Junglers".
Trial and error: Germany reforms its law on international crimes

Jul 8, 2024 | justiceinfo.net | Hannah El-Hitami

Over the past four years, the German judiciary has realized a number of premieres in the field of universal jurisdiction: the first trial dealing with Syrian state torture as a crime against humanity, the first trial to define the Islamic State's (IS) attack on Yazidis in Iraq as a genocide, and the first trial to hold a member of the Gambian killing squad, the Junglers, accountable. But being the first also means sometimes going forward without a clear path and making mistakes on the way.