Tom Dannenbaum

Nov 22, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Tom Dannenbaum

1. Q: What happened with the Prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants in the ‘Situation in Palestine’ at the International Criminal Court (ICC)? A: Yesterday, the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I issued three warrants: one for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one for former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and one for Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (commonly known as “Deif”), the leader of Hamas’s military wing.

Nov 22, 2024 | flipboard.com | Tom Dannenbaum

You Will Not Believe What Tom Cotton Just SuggestedTom Cotton really wants to go to war. Senator Tom Cotton threatened to invade a U.S. ally on behalf of Israel’s genocidal regime. The International …

Nov 18, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Tom Dannenbaum

In an urgent alert ten days ago, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee (FRC) identified an “imminent and substantial likelihood of famine occurring, due to the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip.” The alert precedes a full IPC analysis that will update those released in December 2023, and then in March, June, and October of this year.

Aug 20, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Tom Dannenbaum

At what ought to be a landmark moment in its already impressive engagement with international law, Ukraine is on the verge of a significant unforced legal and political error. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently submitted a bill to the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada for the ratification of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Statute (see here and here). This is a long-anticipated and meaningful step. But it comes with a catch.

May 20, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Tom Dannenbaum

Accountability, International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel-Hamas War, Karim Khan, Starvation, War Crimes (Editor’s Note: This article is part of our new symposium on the ICC and Israel-Hamas war.) On Monday, May 20, 2024, International Criminal Court (ICC) head Prosecutor Karim Khan announced that his Office has applied for warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, head of the Hamas Political...