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As Israel’s war on Gaza continues, a new battleground is emerging — not in bombed-out streets but in courtrooms across Europe, Latin America and beyond. From Brussels to Berlin, a growing number of legal activists are building what they hope will become an unstoppable wave of accountability for the 70,000-plus Palestinians killed and countless others displaced, injured or traumatized. The question is no longer whether Israel will face legal consequences but when — and from how many directions.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing his best to sabotage US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the embattled enclave. But as various interlocutors work to pave a path forward — one that would install a Palestinian committee to run Gaza, deploy a multinational stabilization force there and push Israeli forces out of the Strip — an end to the war should not mean allowing Israel to walk away from the bloodbath it has inflicted on more than 2 million Palestinians.
On the contrary, there has to be a process that holds Israel accountable for the tens of thousands of war crimes and crimes against humanity that were committed and sadly continue to take place on a daily basis, even after a ceasefire agreement came into effect last October. To be precise, an international effort must be launched to bring to justice every person in the Israeli political and military establishments who has either enabled or been directly responsible for every documented crime that has taken place in Gaza since Israel waged its war.
