This Chamber’s mission is to guide the solicitation of witness and expert testimony to create a contemporary and historical record of crimes committed against Palestinians from 1948 to the present time. This will be done through the lens of overlapping international legal frameworks; that is, treaty-based and customary international law, including, but not limited to, the genocide and apartheid conventions and the Geneva and Hague conventions on laws of war, humanitarian law and belligerent occupation law (4th Geneva Convention).
This Chamber will gather evidence not only of the criminal responsibility of the main perpetrators, but also the complicity of third states and actors in third states in perpetrating war crimes, crimes against humanity, aggression and genocide. It will also introduce the explicit ecocide and induced starvation dimensions as part of the deliberate atrocity-generating Israel campaign. Importantly, Chamber One will not attempt to mimic the professional juridical style of the ICJ, which features elaborate technical analyses of main legal issues, strictly defined. The Gaza Tribunal gives priority to legally accurate and hopefully illuminating but non-technical and readable presentations of international law for the sake of media and public relevance.