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ICC Prosecutor steps down. His deputies shouldn't wait any longer:"The urgency stems from the harm caused by incitement: the risk of genocide. This harm is ongoing...the ICC has a duty not only to prosecute past crimes, but to prevent future or terminate ongoing ones" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
The Israeli lawyer filing a landmark incitement to genocide case against Israel at the ICC
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www.haaretz.com
6 years of joint work with so many colleagues and students

700 pages deconstructing the EU apparatus of power from Z to A

500 officials individuals identified in office b/w 2014 and 2020

122 allegedly implicated in ICC crimes

Next: the 2021-2025 suspects

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Lawyers ask ICC to investigate 122 European officials for crimes against humanity in Mediterranean
Human rights lawyers accused 122 European officials of committing crimes against migrants in the Mediterranean Sea
www.washingtonpost.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Instead of immigration custody, #Flotilla activists are held in a remote high-security prison, I told @reuters.com. Israel’s security minister called them terrorists who should “smell the terrorists’ ward” for months. Under Israeli law, however, there’s no basis for either deportation or detention.
October 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
As we watch the interception of the #flotilla unfold live, I outlined the legal framework governing this unprecedented state action: the raiding of 50 boats flying different state flags and the abduction of around 500 people coming from about 50 countries in international waters.
Link in comment.
October 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Was the attack on Nasser Hospital in #Gaza, which killed 22 people inc. 5 journalists, a “double tap”?

Rampant in Gaza and constitutes a war crime, I argued that this case was NOT 'double tap', for two reasons:
www.elindependiente.com/internaciona...
El abogado israelí que persigue a su propio país: “El ataque contra los periodistas en el hospital es un crimen de guerra”
El abogado Omer Shatz impulsa un caso contra Israel en la Corte Penal Internacional tras los recientes ataques en Gaza.
www.elindependiente.com
August 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
ICC Prosecutor steps down. His deputies shouldn't wait any longer:"The urgency stems from the harm caused by incitement: the risk of genocide. This harm is ongoing...the ICC has a duty not only to prosecute past crimes, but to prevent future or terminate ongoing ones" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
The Israeli lawyer filing a landmark incitement to genocide case against Israel at the ICC
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www.haaretz.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Jordan provided medical care, then returned 17 wounded children to Gaza.

No country should collaborate with ethnic cleansing.

But no one, under no circumstances, should be forcibly returned to Gaza, I told @apnews.com @washingtonpost.com

Certainly not wounded children!
May 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Omer Shatz
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons) unanimously adopted the report "Saving the lives of migrants at sea and protecting their human rights". A plenary debate is scheduled for next. month!

pace.coe.int/en/news/9868...
May 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Reposted by Omer Shatz
Según el informe entregado a la Corte Penal Internacional, al menos siete figuras gubernamentales y un periodista destacado, todos israelíes, han sido responsables de este crimen, entre ellos Netanyahu
Omer Shatz, el abogado que pretende probar la incitación al genocidio en Gaza
En lugar de acusar a funcionarios del Gobierno hebreo, este francoisraelí pretende probar la incitación al genocidio en Gaza. La primera vez en la historia de los derechos humanos
elpais.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“That’s why words matter. Never before have the orchestrators of these crimes been so direct. Within a few generations, there will be some truth and reconciliation commission. Somehow, these communities will live together. No one is going nowhere.”
www.elindependiente.com/internaciona...
El abogado israelí que acusa a Netanyahu de incitación al genocidio: “Mi gobierno es muy peligroso”
El abogado israelí que acusa a Netanyahu de incitación al genocidio: “Mi gobierno es muy peligroso”
www.elindependiente.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Big News 👇kudos to all the team @front-lex.bsky.social

For the 1st time #Frontex is in the dock of the #CJEU. The EU judiciary must end impunity & reinstate the Law's Rule in the #EU

+80,000 humans were kidnapped from EU territory by EU agents & abandoned at sea
Big news! The EU Court of Justice has assigned our Hamoudi v. Frontex appeal to its Grand Chamber!

It will hold a hearing on the groundbreaking damages claim filed by Alaa Hamoudi following a 17-hour pushback operation by Frontex and the Hellenic Coast Guard on 28-29 April 2020.
January 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM