No peace for the dead: legal questions about Israel's destruction of cemeteries in Gaza – EJIL: Talk!
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In Gaza not even the dead are at peace. In mid-December the New York Times and the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor first reported that Israel had destroyed several cemeteries in Gaza, bulldozing graves, scattering human remains, and even exhuming bodies, some of which were subsequently taken to Israel. Last week, CNN filed a report documenting […]
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