The European Union and the United States have framed their defence of Ukraine as a principled stance against an aggressor and a war criminal, Russia. But Israel's prosecution of the war in Gaza is undermining their moral high ground and weakening criminal prosecutions against Russia, international relations and law experts say.
When attacks on public infrastructure happened in Ukraine, it led to a discussion in terms of how they violated the Geneva Convention... Now we're facing a situation where in the Gaza hospital and so on, we are clearly beyond the borders of international humanitarian law... That opens up a discussion of what justified warfare looks like in terms of our contemporary age, he said, and shatters what we thought was the set of norms of how military operations should be carried out.
UN and European investigators have been documenting the suspected torture, rape and summary executions of civilians in Bucha, Izyum and elsewhere in Ukraine. These alleged war crimes and atrocities will be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose jurisdiction Ukraine accepts.
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