‘Palestinians are taking the stand’: can legal challenges to Israel’s war in Gaza stop the continuing onslaught?

‘Palestinians are taking the stand’: can legal challenges to Israel’s war in Gaza stop the continuing onslaught?

Diala Shamas is one of a cadre of lawyers operating around the world to give international law teeth to stop the war

On the seventh floor of a quiet building in lower Manhattan, Diala Shamas sits in an office stacked with folders and cardboard boxes, as Signal messages ping on her phone.

Shamas is an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who has spent the last year trying to harness international and US law to stop the war in Gaza.

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