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Janina Dill

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Janina Dill

@JaninaDill

Professor @UniofOxford's @BlavatnikSchool, Fellow @TrinityOxford, Co-director @ELAC_Oxford: Law & Ethics of War, Global Security (in pers. capacity)

Oxford

Joined April 2015

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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Nov 27, 2024
Here is the permanent link to my inaugural lecture. Global Security: Is Law Our Last Hope? youtube.com/watch?v=PcrzgZ…
Brianna Rosen
@rosen_br
Nov 26, 2024
“Law cannot make up for the lack of political moral courage of leaders who refuse to apply it.” Inspiring lecture by Dame Louise Richardson Chair ⁦@JaninaDill⁩ ⁦@BlavatnikSchool⁩ on the role of law in promoting global security as a moral goal.
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Oct 14, 2024
NO! Civilians do not have an obligation to evacuate. Those who can or will not leave are entitled to the full protections of Int Law, including NOT being directly targeted, intentionally starved, forcibly displaced, or terrorised. This is NOT controverisal!
ניר היווני ™ 🤿
@nir_
Oct 14, 2024
Replying to @JaninaDill
Unless civilians are allowed to leave beforehand 🤷‍♂️
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Aug 25, 2025
This is ostensibly a "double-tab strike", the kind designed to kill rescue workers....a #WarCrime if facts are as they appear. A double-tab strike by #Israel in #Gaza on a hospital, no less. Nothing frays the bonds of humanity more effectively than killing the helpers.
Philip Proudfoot
@PhilipProudfoot
Aug 25, 2025
Israel bombs Palestinian civil defense, live on air, as they try to recover the body of journalist, Hossam Al-Masri, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital. Think about all those words I just wrote.
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده
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Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Oct 13, 2024
Starving a civilian population to starve militants embedded within it is still starvation of a civ population as a method of warfare, i.e. a war crime.
The Associated Press
@AP
Oct 13, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that could trap hundreds of thousands of Palestinians without food or water. apnews.com/article/hamas-…
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Oct 14, 2024
Germany asking Israel to sign a "genocide clause" implies it “was aware ... of the serious danger that acts of genocide would be committed", aka 🇩🇪's prevention duty was triggered. Asking "promise not to genocide with our weapons" is not a good way to discharge that duty.
Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Oct 14, 2024
Germany reportedly asked Israel to sign a 'genocide clause' On 13 October 2024, German newspaper BILD reported in an exclusive (behind a paywall) that Germany asked the Israeli government to sign a so-called ‘genocide clause’ as a precondition for further arms deliveries. This
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Nov 13, 2024
Is PM @Keir_Starmer implying that Oct 7 justifies any subsequent atrocity? That the UK doesn't even have to look at Israel's conduct, because Oct 7? That the UK now violates its own obligations under int. law, because Oct 7? Has the PM abandoned legal reasoning?
Gary Spedding
@GarySpedding
Nov 13, 2024
Once again, Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people is raised at Prime Ministers Questions #PMQs with independent mp @AyoubKhanMP pointing to Art II of the genocide convention, asks @Keir_Starmer if he will share his definition of genocide... asks for action to save lives.
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Jan 30, 2024
If these are the facts, the IDF likely violated the legal prohibition on perfidy in armed conflict. Killing wounded fighters who are hors de combat is also a prohibited.
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Jun 2, 2024
"Most children under five in Gaza are spending entire days without eating anything at all."
Children die of malnutrition as Rafah operation heightens threat of famine in Gaza
From theguardian.com
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Apr 26, 2024
Look man, there is only "a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide" if someone is plausibly threatening that right.
Avi Bitterman, MD
@AviBittMD
Apr 25, 2024
Former ICJ president that presided on the case clarifies: the court "didn't decide the claim of genocide was plausible" Full quote: "I'm glad I have a chance to address that because the court's test for deciding whether to impose measures uses the idea of plausibility, but the
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Oct 23, 2024
Nein, hier liegt kein Dilemma vor, weder rechtlich noch moralisch. Israel kann & muss sich im Rahmen des Völkerrechts verteidigen, tut dies aber nicht. Deutschland muss damit seine Unterstützung einstellen, es sei denn Israel vollzieht einen radikalen Kurswechsel.
Timour Azhari
@timourazhari
Oct 23, 2024
Replying to @timourazhari
Video ⬇️ "We are in a situation, in a dilemma, where on the one hand Israel is attacked every day and not supporting it would mean that people are not protecting themselves ... And it is also Germany's responsibility to stand up for international humanitarian law”
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Jul 19, 2024
It is surprisingly powerful to hear stated plainly that which seems legally obvious yet somehow remains contested. Gaza is occupied West Bank settlements violate int law Permanent evacuations are a form of forcible transfer etc.
The Hague - The ICJ delivers its Advisory Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from...
From webtv.un.org
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
Oct 14, 2024
Replying to @JaninaDill
Do you understand that otherwise int law would become a means of forced displacement, of ethnic cleansing, of condemning to intentional annihilation the old, young and infirm? "Flee or die/starve" is war without law and ultimately without limit.
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
May 12, 2025
How long will it take us to fully feel the shame of an elected German representative calling an ongoing war crime - the use of starvation as a method of warfare - "understandable"?
Hanno Hauenstein
@hahauenstein
May 11, 2025
Johann Wadephul, Germany’s new foreign minister today – on Israel’s total blockade (a war crime): “That’s why it is understandable that the Israeli government is looking for ways to wrest [aid] out of Hamas’s hands.”
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Janina Dill
@JaninaDill
May 12, 2025
Es ist unfassbar und untragbar, dass ein deutscher Regierungsvertreter ein andauerndes Kriegsverbrechen, vorsätzliches Aushungern von Zivilpersonen als Methode der Kriegführung, als "verständlich" bezeichnet.
Hanno Hauenstein
@hahauenstein
May 11, 2025
Johann Wadephul, Germany’s new foreign minister today – on Israel’s total blockade (a war crime): “That’s why it is understandable that the Israeli government is looking for ways to wrest [aid] out of Hamas’s hands.”
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