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There's nothing ‘humanitarian’ about a humanitarian pause in Gaza

By Kurt Mills, Visiting Scholar, Centre for Global Law and Governance, University of St Andrews

Despite the steadily mounting death toll in Gaza, western politicians are still calling for a “humanitarian pause” in Israel’s assault on Gaza. “Humanitarian” is defined as “seeking to promote human welfare as a primary or pre-eminent good” – but, in Gaza’s case, a “humanitarian pause” in the war in Gaza will have little effect when it…

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