Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social

There's so much speculation about what Canada's structural investigation into the Hamas-Israel war means. So to clarify things, I wrote a longer explainer. What we do & don’t know about the RCMP's Structural Investigation into the Israel-Hamas War: justiceinconflict.org/2025/07/15/sif… #Gaza

READ HERE: The summary of the #ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change. go.icj-cij.org/4kYgfKy

As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.

France announces it will recognize Palestine! To those who say this is a “reward for Hamas”, please stop confusing Palestinians & Hamas. It’s collective punishment that fuels atrocities. To states - hi, Canada - who have yet recognize to Palestine, yesterday was the right time!

ICC Judges find Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentences them to 15 and 12 years of imprisonment. Summary of judgement: icc-cpi.int/sites/default/… #CentralAfricanRepublic #ICC

Jews were targeted in 920 hate crimes in Canada in 2024 – making them 25 times more likely to experience hate crimes than other Canadians, despite comprising only 1% of the population @MaltzJudy haaretz.com/world-news/202…

Those with the power to end the starvation of Gaza but who choose not to use in & those who issue strong words in lieu of concrete action, should be prepared to accept that they are complicit in a famine they could help to end, but won’t. @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP @BobRae48

Deeply concerning part of Columbia's capitulation to Trump: Foreign students arrested at protests can now be detained by ICE regardless of whether university admin's punish them. Significant escalation of efforts to chill speech & protest activity by non-citizen students.

"Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, Israel as the occupying power has an obligation to provide unconditional and adequate supplies of essential good and services to the entire population under its control." "Israel is not fulfilling this obligation." 1/

Mass starvation is spreading in Gaza. Our colleagues and the people we serve are wasting away. It is time for governments to take decisive action and save lives: msf.org/mass-starvatio…

“Gaza’s health ministry recorded 10 deaths due to starvation in the previous 24 hours, which it said brought the number of hunger-related fatalities in July to 46 [and] the total number of deaths from malnutrition reported by the ministry to 111, at least 80 of them children.”

Once a famine gathers momentum, the effort required to contain it increases exponentially. It would now take an overwhelmingly large aid operation to reverse the coming wave of mortality, and it would take months. Gaza is entering its darkest chapter yet.

Columbia capitulates to Trump a day after suspending / expelling 70 students who protested against atrocities in Gaza👇 It’s not a stretch to believe the University has now put more of its students at risk of being disappeared and illegally detained by ICE & Trump’s thugs.

Amazing news! The #ICJ rules that states can sue each other over #ClimateChange, including over historic emissions of planet-warming gases, & to seek damages for the impacts of climate change such as destroyed buildings and infrastructure: bbc.com/news/articles/… #ClimateAction

“This is not humanitarian aid. We can only think that it was designed to cause damage to the people seeking aid.” A must read. Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story theguardian.com/global-develop… #Gaza #Palestine

"The Dutch court ruled that seizing Gazprom's assets may interfere with the principle of state immunity, which means Dutch courts cannot judge the actions of another state or state entity." Dutch court lifts seizure of Gazprom's local assets: reuters.com/business/energ… #Ukraine

"It is fair to say that this commitment has always been shown by the great majority of Israel’s international law scholars... This attitude is especially important in these challenging times where international law is attacked on various fronts and needs our full support" 👇

Absolutely: "Depriving people of food is criminal ...famine is an act of policy or neglect." The intentionally starved people of Gaza, Sudan & Myanmar deserve more than statements. They deserve actions, not words. Their perpetrators deserve to be prosecuted not merely scolded.