[Ralph Wilde is a member of the Faculty of Laws, University College London, University of London] Israel captured the Palestinian Gaza Strip and West Bank from, respectively, Egypt and Jordan, in the 1967 war it launched against these two states and Syria.* It claimed it was acting, pre-emptively, in self-defence against these states. The war was over, with Israel victorious, … Continue reading Israel’s War in Gaza is Not a Valid Act of Self-defence in International Law