SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: the new Israel-Lebanon framework requires Lebanon to forgo pursuing all legal claims and diplomatic actions against Israel in international political and legal forums.

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 Human Rights Watch’s Lebanon researcher points out that the new Israel-Lebanon framework requires Lebanon to forgo pursuing all legal claims and diplomatic actions against Israel in international political and legal forums.

That waiver would foreclose accountability for a war in which Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have documented extensive apparent war crimes by Israeli forces, including:

 The demolition of more than 10,000 civilian structures in the south between October 2024 and January 2025, much of it carried out with explosives and bulldozers after the ceasefire and outside active combat, which Amnesty says must be investigated as a war crime

 Attacks on medics and hospitals, including strikes that killed paramedics in Beirut and the south; Lebanon’s Islamic Health Association says Israeli forces killed 155 paramedics and destroyed 43 emergency centers during the war

 The killing of journalists, including the October 2023 strike that killed Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah, which a UN expert found appeared to be a war crime

 Indiscriminate attacks on civilians between September and November 2024, including unlawful strikes on residential buildings that killed children, per HRW and Amnesty

 The widespread and unlawful use of white phosphorus in populated areas, documented by HRW

 Repeated attacks harming UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) in apparent violation of the laws of war

 In the 2026 war that began March 2, more than 4,200 people have been killed in Israeli strikes, the majority of them civilians, with over one million displaced. Homes and infrastructure systematically destroyed.

 That followed the earlier 2023-2024 war, after whose November 2024 ceasefire Israel killed more than 380 additional people, including at least 127 civilians, 57 of them in the first 60 days while trying to return home, per the UN

Between October 2023 and the November 2024 ceasefire, Israeli strikes killed more than 3,961 people in Lebanon, including 248 children, 736 women, and 222 health and rescue workers, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

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Ramzi Kaiss / رمزي قيس

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Under the framework agreement, Lebanon commits to “the cessation of all hostile or adverse actions in international political or legal fora”

Shameful to see Lebanon’s gov, headed by the former president of the ICJ no less, relinquish war crime victims’ rights to justice