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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 19

Very useful guide on Iranian ballistic missiles - and a key point: “Iran’s missile response included weapons from its most advanced arsenals … each capable of long-range precision strikes, though fundamentally indiscriminate when deployed in urban areas.”:
aoav.org.uk/2025/a-brief...

A brief guide to Iranian ballistic missiles - AOAV

This AOAV guide outlines the key ballistic missile systems used by Iran, namely the Haj Qasem, Khaibar Shekan, Ghadr, and the Emad. It briefly sets out their technical specifications. We contend that ...

aoav.org.uk

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 18

Opdateringen kan læses her:
curis.ku.dk/ws/portalfil...

Vores hidtidige opdateringer mv. kan i øvrigt læses her:
jura.ku.dk/icourts/rese...

curis.ku.dk

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 18

Ny InterMil-opdatering om krigen mellem Israel og Iran: Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen, Ulrik Graff (FAK) og jeg ser bl.a. på, om Israels angreb kan forstås som lovligt selvforsvar, og om krigens love ser ud til at blive overholdt i forbindelse med Israels og Irans konkrete angreb. (link nedenfor)

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 17

Ny kronik med @astridk_p: Helt kort er pointen, at Mads Bryde Andersen ikke gengiver folkeretten loyalt, når han diagnosticerer og foreslår løsninger på det erklærede problem, at EMRK/EMD på urimelig vis står i vejen for udvisning af kriminelle udlændinge:
www.berlingske.dk/kronikker/da...

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 16

If true, possibly - but there was significant disagreement at the time.

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 16

At that time, NATO said that the RTS facilities were being used “as radio relay stations and transmitters to support the activities of the FRY military and special police forces, and therefore they represent legitimate military targets”. See: icty.org/sid/10052#IVB3

Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

icty.org

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 16

I guess this calls for a repeat of the debate on the 1999 NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) facilities and when such facilities can be considered dual use. I.e. whether Iranian state TV can plausibly be considered part of Iranian military C3.

Axios @axios.com · Jun 16

BREAKING: Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast

Watch: Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast

Watch the moment Iran's state TV was struck.

www.axios.com

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 15

De fleste stopper analysen hér, men et mindretal mener, at atomforskere i helt ekstraordinære tilfælde alligevel kan angribes. Der henvises ofte til de centrale personer under anden verdenskrig. Det giver en vis logisk mening - men retligt synes jeg, at det er svært at forsvare.

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 15

Det er de som alt overvejende hovedregel ikke. Forskere, som er del af de væbnede styrker, vil generelt være det pga deres militære status - men ikke pga deres forskning. Civile forskere vil ikke. Kravet er, at de skal tage direkte del i fjendtlighederne - og forskeres bidrag er som regel indirekte.

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 6

The entire briefing note - which is only 11 pages - is really worth a read, as it is clear and explicit about both its assumptions and data:
openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...

openknowledge.fao.org

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 6

The briefing note makes clear, however, that reports from Gaza on the exhaustion of supplies "suggests that the lower bound of these estimates may be more representative of the current situation than the upper bound."

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 6

For those following the humanitarian situation in Gaza, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently produced a briefing note on the availability of food in Gaza (before the GHF began operating - i.e. the baseline for that operation). They presented the following estimate:

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 4

This is about as strong language as you're going to get from the ICRC. When they do this, they mean it.

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 4

“… the fact that we are watching a people being entirely stripped of its human dignity should really shock our collective conscience.”

“State leaders are under an obligation to act.”

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · Jun 4

The head of the ICRC with an extremely clear and alarming message on the situation in Gaza:

“Humanity is failing in Gaza … We cannot continue to watch what is happening. It’s surpassing any acceptable legal, moral and humane standard.”

www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Act now to save lives in Gaza, ICRC head urges world leaders

Mirjana Spoljaric has appealed to world leaders to intervene in the conflict in Gaza.

www.bbc.com

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · May 29

Det giver i hvert fald ikke mening, det han skriver. Folkedrab dækker blot over, at man begår de handlinger, som er beskrevet i folkedrabskonventionen (navnlig drab) med en folkedrabshensigt. Det er underordnet, hvordan det præcist gennemføres - udover, at lovlig krigsførelse nok ikke er dækket.

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · May 29

Fint overblik over de reelle forhold omkring Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstols praksis på udvisningsområdet - og forsøget på at påvirke domstolen:

www.berlingske.dk/politik/foer...

Førende eksperter: Mette Frederiksen kan ikke »tvinge« en uafhængig domstol til at makke ret – men hun har flere muligheder

Læs mere her.

www.berlingske.dk

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · May 23

Information har talt med Alex de Waal, en af verdens absolut førende forskere inden for sult under krig og konflikt, om situationen i Gaza. Han er altid værd at lytte til:

Dagbladet Information @information.dk · May 23

»Nogle (i den israelske top, red.) ønsker at ødelægge palæstinenserne som gruppe. De vil simpelthen dræbe nok mennesker eller bruge sult til at ødelægge det sociale væv i det palæstinensiske samfund,« siger Alex de Waal, der forsker i hungersnød og brugen af sult som krigsstrategi.

Førende hungersnødsekspert: Israel bruger en moderne version af et gammelt våben

Israels brug af nødhjælp som kontrolmiddel i Gaza kan være et led i en strategisk plan, lyder det fra den britiske professor Alex de Waal, der er førende ekspert i brugen af sult som krigsvåben

www.information.dk

Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · May 22

“…When it does this, and the IPC reports that the deterioration has been arrested, Israeli advocates claim that the famine story was made-up all along. That’s wrong.”

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · May 22

Read Alex de Waal to understand the situation on aid in Gaza:

A key element:
“Encouraged by the United States, Israel has tried to keep the Gazans from descending into “famine” by turning the aid tap on whenever the data indicate it is about to cross that threshold….”

unherd.com/2025/05/the-...

The brutal flaw in Israel’s starvation plan

unherd.com

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · May 21

Interesting. And hard to disagree with their skepticism.

Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · May 21

In a question posed by @jessicadorsey.bsky.social to upwards of 50 military lawyers at the annual conference of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War in Galway, only one considered that the principle of proportionality is being applied meaningfully.

A grim state of affairs.

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · May 21

Jeremy Hill, Aust’s Modern Treaty Law and Practice (4. Edition, 2023)

Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · May 21

Thomas Giegerich, Commentary to article 54 i Dörr & Schmalenbach’s Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, a commentary (2018) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/Qa1qlh7)

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · May 21

Björn Arp, Denunciation Followed by Re-accession with Reservations to a Treaty (2014) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/Ddownaf)

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Marc Schack @marcschack.bsky.social · May 21

Laurence R. Helfer, Not Fully Committed? (2006) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/ph0g2Vr )

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