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Lawfare Live: Discussing the Israel Gaza Crisis

Benjamin Wittes, Daniel Byman, Ghaith al-Omari, Natan Sachs, Scott R. Anderson
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 12:14 PM
Scott Anderson will host a Lawfare Live event at 1:45 pm ET today to discuss the ongoing Israel-Gaza crisis.

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On Oct. 7, Palestinian militants—primarily from Hamas—launched a multi-faceted attack against Israel that included approximately 3,000 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel and the infiltration of approximately 1,000 Palestinian militants into Israeli territory. These militants have killed at least 900 Israelis and injured over 2,600 others, and they have taken about 150 hostages. In response Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu stated that Israel was “at war,” and the Israeli military launched airstrikes toward Gaza. At least 830 Palestinians have been killed and 4,000 have been injured.

On Oct. 10 at 1:45 pm ET, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott Anderson will be joined by Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes, Georgetown University professor Daniel Byman, Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Ghaith Al-Omari, and Fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution Natan Sachs to discuss the ongoing crisis in Israel and Gaza.

Read Wittes’s article on the Israel-Gaza crisis here

Watch the live here or above.

Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Daniel Byman is a professor at Georgetown University, Lawfare's Foreign Policy Essay editor, and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
Ghaith al-Omari is a senior fellow in The Washington Institute's Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship and the former executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine.
Natan Sachs is a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. His work focuses on Israeli foreign policy, domestic politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and U.S.-Israeli relations. He is currently writing a book on Israeli grand strategy and its domestic origins.
Scott R. Anderson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School. He previously served as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State and as the legal advisor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.

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