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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The attack on World Central Kitchen highlights IDF's unlawful use of ‘guilt by association’ - fails to meet the requirements of the Geneva Conventions which could amount to the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population #ICC #Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike

Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders” “The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.” theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...

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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”

“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”

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ICRC Law & Policy Outreach @icrclawpolicy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Civilian harm in war can be shaped by decisions made long before fighting begins. Can IHL require states to consider civilian protection when locating military infrastructure in peacetime? Read full post → bit.ly/4d72FmP #IHL #CivilianProtection

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by AI - An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of fully autonomous weaponry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...

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A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.

An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Autonomous drones and the future of war in an AI-driven world 'If we cannot teach a drone to keep the laws of war, we will not teach a greater intelligence to keep faith with all we value.' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Autonomous drones and the future of war in an AI-driven world | Letter

Letter: Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe, writes military surgeon Dr Darren Mann

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 20/08/2026

Arms sales to Israel are slowing. But that’s only half the story By continuing to purchase weapons from Israel, foreign governments are sustaining the infrastructure, expertise, and financing it needs to wage its next war. By Sahar Vardi. www.972mag.com/israel-weapo...

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Arms sales to Israel are slowing. But that's only half the story

By continuing to buy arms from Israel, foreign states are sustaining the infrastructure, expertise, and financing it needs to wage its next war.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 15/08/2026

Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth’s reversal on decades of progress on civilian harm mitigation and response procedures that has contributed to more civilian casualties, writes @maethompson.bsky.social, Kristine Beckerle, and @lukemoffett.bsky.social. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...

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From Promise to Peril: The U.S. Retreat From Civilian Harm Response

Hegseth’s U-turn on decades of CHMR progress has contributed to more civilian casualties and left victims without access to repair and amends.

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Automating civilian harm: On Israel’s use of the AI-enabled targeting system Lavender in Gaza and International Humanitarian Law media.licdn.com/dms/document...

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

‘We have nowhere to return to’: How Russia is seizing homes in occupied Ukraine - 34,002 properties belonging to Ukrainian citizens have been identified as seized in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine, something which is illegal under international law www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

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How Russia is seizing homes in occupied Ukraine leaving many with 'nowhere to return to’ - BBC News

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

💔🇺🇦 7 (!) children and their parents died in one house, from which only ashes remained - the terrible details of the "Zircon" strike by Russian bastards on a village near Kryvyi Rih, the Ministry of Social Policy reported.

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

looks fascinating - "we argue that the way the coalition previously counted civilian casualties erased certain harms from view, including the indirect, cumulative, and reverberating violence that civilians suffered during this conflict". www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Growing risk that thousands buried in #Gaza’s rubble may never be identified, says Red Cross - at least 10,000 people are thought to be buried, according to health officials in Gaza, but it could be as high as 14,000 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Growing risk that thousands buried in Gaza’s rubble may never be identified, says Red Cross

Exclusive: Recovery efforts remain slow and passing of time makes it more likely they will be skeletonised

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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

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Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...

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Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking

If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people?

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 03/06/2026

Hacking civilian cameras is now a recurring feature of war. Branko Ruzic walks through the existing statutory landscape to understand whether the government can compel remediation of the millions of exploitable devices already deployed across U.S. cities. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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The Remediation Gap in Civilian Camera Security

Civilian cameras are being hijacked in active conflicts. U.S. law freezes future imports but cannot touch the millions already deployed at home.

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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 28/05/2026

Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...

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Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data

It's an illustration of how the global surveillance ‌economy is shaping the battlefield.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Just sharing in case it's of interest to anyone: the British Red Cross Summer School on International Humanitarian Law held in Cambridge University. I did it a few years ago & learnt a lot (I was the only journalist on the course but it is open to journalists). www.redcross.org.uk/about-us/wha...

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Summer School on International Humanitarian Law

Find out about the British Red Cross Summer School on International Humanitarian Law and how to apply for a place.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

In Cold Blood

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Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

NEW: Airwars-supported cross-border investigation identifies victims of US boat strikes. Journalist collective reveals victims are labourers, fishermen, cab drivers. Almost 200 have been killed since Sept 2025. No trial, no defence. 🔗 www.elclip.org/los-bombarde... #LosBombardeados

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Los Bombardeados: sin derecho a la defensa

Una investigación que busca revelar quiénes son las víctimas y cuáles han sido los efectos colaterales de los bombardeos de Estados Unidos a supuestas narcolanchas en el Caribe y el Océano Pacífico de...

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

My take on the UKSC's Dillon judgment - it is a combination of regressive and dubious reasoning. It radically reduces the range of cases in which Art 2 is applicable, in reasoning which flies in the face of the UK Government's promises over the provision: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/14/c...

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Colin Murray: Hollowing out Northern Ireland’s Post-Brexit Rights Protections in Re Dillon [2026] UKSC 15

The Good and Faithful Servants One of the foundational assertions of judicial approaches to legislation in the UK comes from Willes J in Lee v Bude and Torrington Railway Co: We sit here as servant…

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Saving the UN archive on the Nakba “Their destruction would have been catastrophic … If there is ever a just and durable solution to this conflict, then this is the only evidence people can use to show there were once Palestinians living in a particular place” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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The secret mission to rescue the UN’s vital Palestinian refugee archive

Millions of documents chronicling generations of trauma saved from Gaza and East Jerusalem in 10-month Unrwa operation

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Dangerous precedent of children interfering with fiber optic drones, potentially directly participating in hostilities by such actions

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Mali defence minister Camara killed in truck bombing of his residence that also destroyed part of nearby mosque killing worshippers inside, it comes as #Mali is hit by wave of rebel attacks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Mali Defence Minister Sadio Camara killed as country hit by rebel attacks

A wave of coordinated attacks by jihadist militants and separatists has spread through the country.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

That Gulf AI buildout looking a whole lot less appealing now huh

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

“Lethal kinetic strike” being the administration’s preferred euphemism for murder.

On April 24, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed.
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#OpSouthernSpear

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REPAIR @reparativefinance.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Recent piece from the Guardian’s ‘Cotton Capital’ series discussing learning points on #repair & #enslavement, and a plan based on ~3 years of engagement with descendants, #reparations experts, civil society organisations, academics and cultural leaders. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found

Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity and dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of the conversation

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Craig Martin @craigxmartin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New episode of JIB/JAB - a fascinating and important discussion with @janinadill.bsky.social and @monicahakimi.bsky.social on how the attacks on Iran impact the crisis in int'l law, what follows, and how legal scholars and states should respond. Wherever you get your podcasts, or link in comment:

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"While it is unclear if the cuts to CHMR can be tied to any specific civilian casualties in Iran, including the Minab strike, it is clear that the Pentagon is deemphasizing civilian protection, even as current and former defense officials say that internal demand for programs like CHMR remains high"

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Phone tracking shows how Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates provided critical support #Sudan's #RSF in the brutal capture of el-Fasher where thousands of civilians died www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Colombian mercenaries in Sudan: Phone tracking shows they backed the RSF - report

The Conflict Insights Group (CIG) says its research also shows the extent of UAE involvement.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This was published this morning by the IDF (AI translation). #lebanon

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