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Gaza & Palestine blog
Hostage-Taking Is a War Crime, and the Law Behind the Families' Campaign From the families in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square to the Geneva Conventions: why taking hostages is forbidden to every party in every war, how the rule was built, and where its edges are argued. Rebuilding Gaza After the October 2025 Ceasefire and Who Pays for It The October 2025 ceasefire stopped most of the shooting. How big Gaza's rebuilding job is, who has pledged money, and why past pledges went unpaid. South Africa's Genocide Case at the ICJ and What Provisional Measures Mean What the World Court actually ordered in South Africa v. Israel on January 26, 2024, what it did not decide, and how a genocide case moves from emergency orders to a final judgment. Starvation as a Method of War and What International Law Forbids What the law says about starving civilians in war, from Security Council Resolution 2417 to the 2025 famine finding in Gaza City, and how hunger is measured, prohibited and prosecuted. UNRWA From Its 1949 Founding to the Fight Over Aid for Palestinian Refugees How a temporary 1949 UN agency became school, clinic and food line for millions of Palestinian refugees, and why Israel's 2024 laws and donor cuts hit it.