Lawfare Archive: A Band-Aid for a Bomber: Is Medical Assistance to Terrorists Protected Under IHL?
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🗓️ 12 May 2024
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From September 12, 2015: On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Benjamin Wittes sits down with Professor Gabriella Blum, professor at Harvard Law School, and Dustin Lewis, a senior researcher at Harvard Law Schools’ Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, to discuss their new report written with Naz Modirzadeh entitled Medical Care in Armed Conflict: IHL and State Responses to Terrorism. The conversation takes a look at whether we should consider medical care a form of illegitimate support to terrorists. Their argument? We shouldn't, because IHL lays down extensive protections for medical care, and those protections in many instances should also constrain domestic material support cases. Yet the authors make clear that in their view, there's also more to be done, as there are gaps and weaknesses in the protections afforded by IHL itself.
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| 1:21.1 | With ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, there is significant discussion when and how to supply humanitarian aid to combatants, an important foundation of international law. |
| 1:30.0 | It recalls a debate from many years ago during the United States War on Terror |
| 1:34.9 | that touches on how far international humanitarian law protections go in terms of providing |
| 1:39.9 | medical assistance to those in conflict, specifically combatants engaging in terrorism. |
| 1:45.2 | For today's episode, I chose an episode from September 12, 2015. |
| 1:49.9 | In the episode, Benjamin Wettis sat down with Gabriel LeBoom and Dustin Lewis to discuss their |
| 1:54.4 | 2015 report entitled Medical Care and Armed Conflict, IHL and State Responses to Terrorism. |
| 2:01.2 | They discussed whether or not medical care should be considered a form of illegitimate |
| 2:05.0 | support to terrorists. |
| 2:06.8 | How international humanitarian law lays down extensive protections for medical care and can |
| 2:11.9 | constrain domestic prosecutions and more. |
| 2:15.0 | I'm Cody Poplin and this is the Law Fair Podcast September 12, 2015. That was Gabriella Blum, a professor of law at Harvard |
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