On 23 June 2020, Ahmad Erekat, 26, was shot and killed by Israeli forces at the Container checkpoint in the central West Bank after he emerged unarmed from his car after it crashed into the checkpoint. The Israeli authorities have consistently claimed that its personnel were acting in legitimate..
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Litigating the New Frontier in the War on Terror
In the landscape of the global “war on terror,” the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union are veteran pioneers. CCR hacked into the “legal black hole” of Guant&a..
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Lawfare and Targeted Killing: Developments in the Israeli and US Contexts
Over the last decade, the term lawfare, an amalgamation of “law” and “warfare,” has been adopted and popularized among people engaged in monitoring, judging and debating the legality of a state’s wartime behavior vis-à-vis enemies on and o..