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Laurent Gisel @laurentgisel.bsky.social · 13d

How should #AI decision support systems be used in conflict? This excellent podcast with Heidi Kandiel (@icrc.org) & @jessicadorsey.bsky.social explores the risks they raise for compliance with #IHL & the need to ensure they support rather than replace human judgment.
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LBD Live Podcast 25 Sep 25 AI DSS

YouTube video by Article 36 Legal

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Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social · 20d

If you missed the recent meeting of the CCW GGE on LAWS, the latest #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode with @jessicadorsey.bsky.social goes into the details of the meeting & some of the key takeaways.

You can listen to this episode anywhere you get your podcasts 🎧

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Frank Slijper @frankslijper.bsky.social · Aug 14

How Israel used Microsoft technology to spy on Palestinians – podcast
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How Israel used Microsoft technology to spy on Palestinians – podcast

Harry Davies on how Microsoft’s cloud was used to facilitate mass surveillance of Palestinians

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Jessica Dorsey @jessicadorsey.bsky.social · Aug 13

Study highlighting the deskilling aspect of integrating AI; this time in medicine but concerns are the same within the military domain. Commanders who rely too heavily on AI-DSS also risk deskilling and cognitive erosion. Writing about this currently, expanding on this piece: hcss.nl/wp-content/u...

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Jessica Dorsey @jessicadorsey.bsky.social · Aug 12

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The Guardian view on Anas al-Sharif and Gaza’s journalists: Israel is wiping out the witnesses | Editorial

Editorial: The Al Jazeera reporter is only the latest of many media workers to be killed. But silencing their voices won’t stem international outrage

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ICRC Law & Policy Outreach @icrclawpolicy.bsky.social · Aug 12

🕊️ 76 years since the adoption of the #GenevaConventions

To mark this anniversary, the #ICRC will soon release the updated GCIV Commentary.

Watch the teaser to learn more about why this remains essential in today’s conflicts.

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Coming soon: ICRC Commentary on the 4th Geneva Convention

YouTube video by International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

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Jessica Dorsey @jessicadorsey.bsky.social · Aug 12

Read the whole thing. Watch all the videos. Dry your eyes. Then do something meaningful to stop this inhumanity. Thanks for the incredible work, @manisha.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

‘A deadly scheme’: Palestinians face indiscriminate gunfire at food sites

Investigation based on visual evidence, bullets, medical records and testimony appears to show sustained pattern of Israeli shootings

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Jessica Dorsey @jessicadorsey.bsky.social · Aug 7

Maybe not, but the rest of us can care and advocate for this to stop.

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Jessica Dorsey @jessicadorsey.bsky.social · Aug 7

In a recent piece for International Law Studies, Marta Bo and I explore the overlooked legal implications of these systems. We argue that ensuring compliance throughout the entire life cycle, while acknowledging their system-of-systems nature, is urgently needed. 2/2
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AI-Enabled Decision-Support Systems in the Joint Targeting Cycle: Legal Challenges, Risks, and the Human(e) Dimension

<p><span>As artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies become increasingly integrated into military targeting operations, the legal, ethical, and operati

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Jessica Dorsey @jessicadorsey.bsky.social · Aug 7

“Intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza.” This reveals how large-scale human rights violations can fuel AI systems that enable genocide. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · Aug 3

“If we do not act now, there will be no one left in Gaza to tell anyone’s story. And that silence – those deaths – will be on us.” — CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social‬ writes in an op-ed for ‪@theguardian.com‬

Read more⤵️
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Gaza is starving. So are its journalists | Jodie Ginsberg

A desperate situation has become catastrophic. If we do not act now, there will be no one left to tell anyone’s story

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Jessica Dorsey @jessicadorsey.bsky.social · Jul 31

Very happy to read this!

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gaborrona.bsky.social @gaborrona.bsky.social · Jul 31

There's still some hope in the courts:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

Judge Bars Trump Administration From Punishing 2 Law Professors for I.C.C. Work

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Jul 27

ICRC: "On Thursday, the Red Cross Field Hospital received 17 wounded women, with 2 declared dead on arrival. Those responsive said they had been trying to access distribution sites."

"The situation in Gaza is appalling."

"People cannot continue to live like this. More can & must be done."

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · Jul 26

Sigrid Kaag over de uithongering in Gaza, en de blaam die Nederland en andere landen van de internationale gemeenschap treft: "Ik kan niet meer uitleggen waarom de wereld toekijkt." www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/n...

Oud-VN gezant Sigrid Kaag over de hongersnood in Gaza

De beelden van uitgehongerde Palestijnse kinderen gingen deze week de wereld over. Mogelijk gaat Israël de komende dagen voedseldroppingen door andere Arabische landen toestaan, maar of dat de situati...

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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 25

Very rare for the ICRC:

"Every political hesitation" in failing to bring the "abhorrent" practice of extreme deprivation and indiscriminate attacks to an immediate and decisive end "will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war"
States "must do more"

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Molly Quell @mollyquell.bsky.social · Jul 24

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 21

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 21

Western allies condemn ‘horrifying’ civilian killings in Gaza https://on.ft.com/4m9ugpO

Western allies condemn ‘horrifying’ civilian killings in Gaza

Statement from UK, EU nations and others calling for end to war marks one of their toughest denunciations of Israel so far

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Jessica Dorsey @jessicadorsey.bsky.social · Jul 21

Every morning a similar story, civilians waiting for food or water being shot at by the IDF. Some die, some are injured (without access to hospitals). Some get bits of sustenance, some continue to be pushed toward starvation. The cruelty is the point, it seems. www.nytimes.com/article/isra...

What to Know About the Deadly Violence Near Gaza Aid Sites

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Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social · Jul 20

"Suddenly, tanks surrounded us and trapped us as gunshots and strikes rained down. We were trapped for around two hours,” said Ehab Al-Zei, who had been waiting for flour. ”I will never go back again. Let us die of hunger, it’s better.”

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jul 20

BREAKING: The Palestinian Health Ministry says 73 people have been killed while waiting for humanitarian aid across Gaza.

73 people killed waiting for humanitarian aid across Gaza, Palestinian Health Ministry says

The Palestinian Health Ministry says that 73 people have been killed while waiting for aid at locations across Gaza.

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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · Jul 19

BBC Verify dug into Israel's widespread demolitions in #Gaza. Main legal points:

✖️It isn't plausible that every case is covered by imperative military necessity. Destruction of property in occupied territory without imperative mil necessity is a war crime.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · Jul 12

Further Israeli attacks would of course violate int'l law & implicate US legal restrictions on arms transfers.

US has leverage to stop it.

And any such "mowing the grass" strikes would likely be intended to draw the US in again to directly (and illegally) attack Iran.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Trump Signals Support for New Israel Attack if Iran Moves Toward Bomb

Trump is counting on the threat of more attacks to pressure Tehran into a nuclear agreement, but Israel is skeptical a pact would prevent Iran from moving toward a nuclear weapon.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Jul 9

My government is imposing sanctions on a UN mandate holder for doing her job, including calling on the ICC to do its job: holding perpetrators of international crimes accountable for their actions.

This is behavior worthy of a crime family, not a member of the United Nations.

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Kevin Jon Heller @kevinjonheller.bsky.social · Jun 24

New: my very long post @opiniojuris.bsky.social explaining why the "last window of opportunity" test for self-defence, used by both the #US and #Israel to justify attacking #Iran, is not the law -- and shouldn't be. opiniojuris.org/2025/06/24/t...

The “Last Window of Opportunity” Test Is Unlawful — and Dangerous

Much has already been written about the illegality of Israel and the US’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities — Operation Rising Lion and Operation Midnight Hammer — includ…

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