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The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) held a panel discussion titled “2023 War on Gaza: The Responsibility to Prevent Genocide” on 12 December 2023, from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. (New York Time) in Conference Room 7 at UN Headquarters in New York.
The discussion examined the legal implications of Israel’s military offensive against the Gaza Strip since 7 October and shed light on the applicability of key legal frameworks including those that define Genocide (i.e., Rome Statute and Genocide Convention). The event also helped clarify the international community’s responsibility to uphold international law, including its duty to prevent the recurrence of forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, and uprooting of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
Speakers on the panel included Mr. Jehad Abusalim, Executive Director of The Jerusalem Fund; Dr. Raz Segal, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University; Ms. Hannah Bruinsma, Legal Advisor at Law for Palestine; and Ms. Katherine Gallagher, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.