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Omer Shatz
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · May 16
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
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · 13d
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
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · 27d
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What happens to Gaza flotilla activists who are detained by Israel?
Israeli forces have intercepted boats carrying aid bound for Gaza, in the latest attempt by foreign activists to break an Israeli blockade and deliver supplies to the Palestinian territory.
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · 27d
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.
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · 29d
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Activists say Israeli navy has begun intercepting a Gaza-bound aid flotilla
Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza say the Israeli navy intercepted at least 19 of their boats as they approached the besieged Palestinian territory
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · 29d
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.
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Aug 30
He openly admitted that the journalists were intentionally targeted by the IDF because their reporting damaged Israel’s reputation. He also said many other journalists are still operating, implicitly calling for their assassination. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyoW...
צבי יחזקאלי על הרג עיתונאים בעזה: "טוב עשתה ישראל שהיא חיסלה אותם"
YouTube video by העין השביעית - The Seventh Eye
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Aug 30
One of the eight suspects in the #ICC case on #incitement to #genocide is Zvi Yehezkeli, an influential Israeli “journalist”—one might call him part of Israel’s own “Radio Rwanda.”
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Aug 30
Israel has previously acknowledged the *intentional* killing of (Al-Jazeera) journalists. The targeting of local journalists aligns with Israel’s ban on foreign reporters, and recently, even on foreign doctors—who, once home, testify to what they witnessed.
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Aug 30
Also the *second* strike may not have been a “regrettable mistake,” as PM Netanyahu claimed. Evidence suggests and there is room to argue that the strike that killed the journalists was a deliberate, independent attack. That the journalists were not collateral damage but the target.
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Aug 30
In any event, already this first strike was a grave breach of international humanitarian law, violating the principles of distinction, precaution, proportionality, and the special protection afforded to medical units.
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Aug 30
Only days earlier, a Palestinian journalist had documented the starving children’s ward for Israeli outlet #Haaretz. Coincidentally, he is one of the five who were killed.
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Aug 30
Double tap presumes the *first* strike is on a legitimate military objective. What makes it unlawful is the subsequent strike. Here the alleged target was a camera located in a hospital. The IDF knew journalists were operating there.
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Aug 30
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
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · May 16
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · May 16
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
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · May 16
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Gaza children are sent back to war zone following medical care after Jordan rejects requests to stay
Seventeen Palestinian children and their caregivers were recently sent back to Gaza after receiving medical treatment in Jordan
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · May 16
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!
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front-LEX @front-lex.bsky.social · May 5
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...
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · Apr 7
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
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Feb 21
“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”
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Jan 15
vous pouvez lire l'histoire du requérant courageux dans cette affaire, Alaa Hamoudi, ici 👇
www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/r...
Refoulement de migrants : un Syrien réclame réparation de la part de Frontex
Un Syrien se disant victime d'un refoulement par les autorités grecques vers la Turquie a déposé un recours devant la justice européenne pour obtenir...
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Jan 15
You can read about the story of the brave applicant in this case, Alaa Hamoudi, a Syrian refugee, here👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/a...
‘I was close to death’: Syrian man tells how Greek officials pushed refugees back out to sea
Alaa Hamoudi sues EU border agency Frontex after he and 21 others allegedly abandoned in motorless inflatable
www.theguardian.com
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Omer Shatz @omershatz.bsky.social · Jan 15
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
front-lex.bsky.social front-LEX @front-lex.bsky.social · Jan 13
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.
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