Breakfast Briefing with Eitan Diamond and Anna-Christina Schmid

Shrinking Civic and Humanitarian Space in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Abstract

Eitan Diamond and Anna-Christina Schmid from the IHL Centre – an independent expert group providing rapid legal analysis, training, and advocacy on international humanitarian law (IHL) and related fields – will present on the Centre’s work in the Israeli-Palestinian context. They will provide an overview of the main IHL-related issues that the Centre has been addressing since the onset of hostilities on 7 October 2023. Particular attention will be devoted to an alarming erosion of civic and humanitarian space, which has undermined humanitarian relief as well as efforts to promote respect for international law at a time of dire need.

About the Speakers

Eitan Diamond is Manager and Senior Legal Expert at the IHL Centre overseeing its work in the Israeli-Palestinian context. He also serves on the managerial boards of the NGOs Public Committee against Torture in Israel and Parents against Child Detention, and on the editorial board of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies. Eitan has previously worked, inter alia, as Executive Director of the NGO Gisha; as a Legal Advisor for the Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Israel and the Occupied Territories; as an expert consultant for UNICEF; and as Researcher and Legal Advisor for the NGO B’Tselem. His academic qualifications include a PhD from the Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law; an LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Chevening Scholar; and an LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a recipient of a Diploma in Human Rights awarded by the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute.

Anna-Christina Schmidl is a Legal Advisor at the IHL Centre, based in Stockholm. Her work focuses on IHL, human rights law, and public international law in the Israeli-Palestinian context. Prior to joining the IHL Centre in 2021, she worked in international arbitration and for a think tank focused on human rights policy. She holds a BA in Law from the University of Cambridge, an MA in International Relations and Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of York.

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