Gaza at risk of becoming ‘graveyard of international law’ – Palestinian lawyer

Raji Sourani says west is jeopardising something precious' by shielding Israel from legal consequences

A prominent Palestinian human rights lawyer whose Gaza home was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in the early weeks of the war has called on western powers and global institutions to do more to prevent the territory becoming the graveyard of international law".

Raji Sourani, who founded the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in 1995 and was a key member of the South African legal team that took Israel to the international court of justice on a charge of genocide, met the UK attorney general last week to urge him to assume a leadership role in defending humanitarian law.