Émilie Max

expert adviser on IHL and follower of all things Middle-East | SOAS & @Geneva_Academy alumna |RT ≠ endorsement | private profile

[Émilie Max @Mx_Emilie]

Proudly (re)stating this👉🏼 My training as a legal adviser on international law is an integral part of my identity. It makes me who I am, and so does my Jewish heritage. In these dark and senseless times, I pray that Gaza will never cease to be a place rather than becoming a time.

[Omar Shakir @OmarSShakir]

After decade+ attesting far & wide to the integrity of @hrw work, I feel a duty to acknowledge when we get it wrong. Researchers are doing vital work—but this decision calls into question the new leadership's commitment to principled reporting on facts & application of the law.

[Johann Soufi @jsoufi]

📣 Deux chercheurs de @hrw, @OmarSShakir et M. Ansari, démissionnent après le blocage de leur rapport estimant que le refus par 🇮🇱 du droit au retour des réfugiés 🇵🇸 pourrait constituer un crime contre l’humanité. Ils dénoncent une décision politique.

https://t.co/QsQnCUDZAa

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

Palestinian rights are yet again exceptionalised, their suffering trivialised, and their pursuit of justice forestalled by people who care more about reputation and expediency than law and justice.

Solidarity to Omar and Milena.

https://t.co/dpGQYRghCV

[Omar Shakir @OmarSShakir]

I've resigned from @hrw after 10+ yrs—most as Israel/Palestine Director—after HRW's new ED pulled a finalized report on the right of return for Palestinian refugees on eve of its release & blocked for weeks its publication in a principled way. Full story: https://t.co/npbjjwBqf5

[Dessins de Chappatte @chappatte]

Vu de Gaza - © Chappatte dans NZZ am Sonntag, Zürich 👉 https://t.co/jhPzmZCbea

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza is imminent.

All States must act now to stop this.

The ICC prosecutor must issue a preventive statement.

The ICJ must indicate provisional measures.

All lawful means must be used now.

[Cordula Droege @CDroegeICRC]

📌Global #IHL Initiative

🙏 Algeria, Costa Rica, Slovenia & Sierra Leone for leading on the protection of civilian infrastructure w/ @ICRC.

In today’s consultation states underlined that the protective nature of IHL must upheld and not be modified into apology for destruction.

[Cordula Droege @CDroegeICRC]

Thank you @ImogenFoulkes @swissinfo_en for a conversation on the enduring value of the #GenevaConventions and why we must fight for better respect with international humanitarian law #IHL every day.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Netanyahu says Israel wants to implement Trump's "voluntary migration plan” from Gaza, meaning Israel keeps bombing & starving Palestinian civilians until they have no choice but to leave. That is genocide as a means to the war crime of forced deportation. https://t.co/IKtw9Aurji

[CICR @CICR_fr]

📍Gaza | Nous sommes consternés par le fait que huit secouristes de @PalestineRCS aient été tués alors qu'ils accomplissaient leur travail, ainsi que cinq premiers intervenants de la Défense civile à Gaza et un membre du personnel des @UN 👇🏽

[Philippe Lazzarini @UNLazzarini]

#Gaza : humanity at its darkest hour.

No humanitarian aid has entered #Gaza for more than 3 weeks now.
This is longest that Gaza has been without any supplies since the war began.
During the ceasefire, 500–600 trucks arrived daily.
Now, nothing.

Parents cannot find food for their children.
The sick are without medicine.
Prices are soaring.
Hunger is increasing while the risk of diseases spreading is looming.

Meanwhile, bombardment from the Israeli Forces continues.
Last week saw the single deadliest day in the past 1.5 years of war with more than 500 people reported killed including women and children.
Another eight @UNRWA staff were killed only in the past week.
People continue to search for safety.
Over 140,000 people were forced to flee due to the Israeli authorities evacuation orders.

➡️ The siege must be lifted and crossings must re-open for a standard flow of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies.
➡️ All hostages must be released.
➡️ The bombardment must stop and the ceasefire renewed.

[Ziad Majed @ziadmajed]

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is still in Israeli jails.
His last image continues to haunt us.

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

Settler violence is an Israeli State- controlled-and-directed enterprise driving the forcible transfer of Palestinians and the expansion of settlements.

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Israeli forces have killed Palestinian journalists Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat in Gaza.

In 2024, Palestinians accounted for nearly 2/3rds of all journalists killed worldwide, some of them deliberately killed by Israeli forces, per @pressfreedom. This is no accident.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against . many people precluded from the protections of the law"

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Reminder that "senior officials in Hamas' political wing" are not lawful targets unless and for such time as they take a direct part in hostilities.

Killing them typically offers no concrete and direct military advantage, so harm to nearby civilians will be disproportionate.

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

356 Palestinians killed in the past few hours. A bloodbath. A massacre.

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

This is an excellent review https://t.co/6KcBIyFKRG

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

"Aid groups, the United Nations and several Western governments have urged Israel to allow shipments to resume, criticizing its use of humanitarian relief as a bargaining chip in negotiations and, in some cases, saying that the cutoff violates international law."

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

UPDATE: The International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ received 45 written submissions from States and intergovernmental organizations in the case related to #Israel's obligation to agree and facilitate the presence and activities of UN agencies, humanitarian organizations and neutral states in occupied #Palestinian territory.
Public hearings will commence on 28 April, and an advisory opinion can be expected by late May or early June.
Amongst intervening States are prominent donor states to humanitarian relief, including @NorwayMFA, @MZEZ_RS, @SpainMFA, @BelgiumMFA, and @francediplo_EN.