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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jonathan Guyer

‘Palestinians are taking the stand’: can legal challenges to Israel’s war in Gaza stop the continuing onslaught?

a women holding microphone with people behind her
Diala Shamas speaking outside the courthouse after a hearing on 26 January 2024 in Oakland, California. Photograph: Center for Constitutional Rights

On the seventh floor of a quiet building in lower Manhattan, Diala Shamas sits in an office stacked with folders and cardboard boxes, as Signal messages ping on her phone.

Shamas is an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who has spent the last year trying to harness international and US law to stop the war in Gaza.

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