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Eliav Lieblich

Eliav Lieblich (@eliavl) is a professor of law at Tel-Aviv University’s Faculty of Law. Lieblich teaches and researches public international law, with a focus on the law on the use of force, international humanitarian law, the law of occupation, and the history and theory of international law.
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08 May 2022

Eliav Lieblich

Wrong to the Core

On May 4, 2022, close to midnight, the Supreme Court of Israel released its judgment in HCJ 413/13 Abu Aram v. Minister of Defense, holding that the Israeli army is permitted to evict eight Palestinian communities in Masafer Yatta, a rural area in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank, for the stated purpose of establishing a “firing zone” for the IDF. The judgment sealed over two decades of litigation, in which the Court pushed the parties to settle and “compromise.” Unfortunately, the decision in this case is wrong to the core. Continue reading >>