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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Stefania D'Ignoti

In Italy, a Palestinian lawyer who fled Gaza builds Israel genocide case

Raji Sourani, a Palestinian human rights lawyer from Gaza, stands in front of a reproduction of Pablo Picasso's antiwar painting Guernica in Guernica, Spain [File: Vincent West/Reuters]

Messina, Italy – Piles of court documents in English and Arabic filled the desk and covered the floor of Triestino Mariniello’s home office for much of March in Messina, a city in southern Italy overlooking Mediterranean waters on one side and the smoking Etna volcano on the other.

Here, far from the war, a team of lawyers from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCGR) in Gaza, to which Mariniello belongs, worked last month on their attempt to prosecute Israel for genocide.

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