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Recanati-Kaplan Talks

War on Hamas: The Legal Frontlines

Dr. Eran Shamir-Borer, Yohanan Plesner and Jodi Rudoren

Mar 7, 2024


As the war with Hamas continues, Israel is facing increased international scrutiny and criticism of its tactics in Gaza, with some questioning the extent to which they adhere to international law. This has started to have real-world implications with the ICJ ruling in favor of some provisional measures and continuing to hear charges of that Israel’s military operations could amount to genocide.

How does Israel’s government and military take international law into account as it prosecutes the war? How does the asymmetry of this conflict affect the application of the laws of warfare? What more can be done based on historical precedents of democracies fighting terror organizations? What steps does Israel take to minimize harm to Palestinian civilians, and how is proportionality of collateral damage judged under international law?

Join Colonel (res.) Dr. Eran Shamir-Borer, Director of IDI’s Center for Security and Democracy and the former Head of the IDF International Law Department, and IDI President Yohanan Plesner, a former member of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, for an in-depth conversation about the Israeli perspective on the fraught legal frontlines of this war. Dr. Shamir-Borer has been serving in active reserve duty since Oct. 7, in the IDF International Law Department, and Plesner served in the IDF’s elite "Sayeret Matkal" unit, in which he still serves as an active officer in reserve duty.

The conversation will be moderated by Jodi Rudoren, Editor-in-Chief of the Forward, the leading Jewish news outlet in the U.S., and a former Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times.

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