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Transitional justice initiatives in the Israel-Hamas war

- By Karen Carey As this essay is being written, in the horror of this war, it is next to impossible to imagine any transitional justice initiatives that could do anything to ameliorate the anguish...

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Transitional justice initiatives in the Israel-Hamas war

By Karen Carey

As this essay is being written, in the horror of this war, it is next to impossible to imagine any transitional justice initiatives that could do anything to ameliorate the anguish. Thousands of children and adults in Gaza have been killed. Others are about to die of injury, disease, and starvation, while truckloads of medical equipment, supplies and food are piled up not far away waiting to get across the closed borders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems impervious to the suffering and death of Gazans, holding firm to his oft-repeated assertion that for Israel to be safe Hamas must be eliminated. Despite many warnings from the international community not to attack Rafah, where over a million Palestinians took what remaining refuge they could find, the Israeli Defense Force has begun a lethal military offensive there.

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