http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/16afc57cb4818351 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-sleeping-beauty-has-awoken/ The Sleeping Beauty Has Awoken - The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission Schmadl, Celia eng 2024-08-16 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 fact finding Israel-Gaza War Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In June 2024, the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) announced that it had been mandated to investigate an incident in the Gaza-Israel conflict. Often dubbed “the Sleeping Beauty”, the IHFFC conducted its first investigation in 2017, twenty-six years after its establishment in 1991. Despite being sidelined for almost three decades, the IHFFC has the potential to reinvent itself as a crucial tool for monitoring compliance with international humanitarian law.