Report of the National Lawyers Guild Delegation to Gaza, February 2009

This is a 45 page report by a delegation by a group of American Lawyers who visited Gaza after the 22 days Israeli assault of January 2009. Here are their recommendations.

As such, the National Lawyer Guild Delegation to Gaza calls for:

1. The United Nations to establish a commission of inquiry to conduct a
   comprehensive and independent investigation into the gross violations of
   international humanitarian law reported herein and to recommend the
   establishment of an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a
   ‘subsidiary organ’ under U.N. Charter Article 22 to prosecute Israel’s top
   generals and other military and political leaders for gross violations of the
   law;
2. The United States envoy to the United Nations and, more generally, the
   Obama Administration, under the obligations of the Geneva Conventions
   and general principles of humanitarian law, to support a full United Nations
   investigation of Israel’s conduct during Operation Cast Lead;
3. The Directorate of the Defense Trade Controls, in the Bureau of Political-
   Military Affairs of the Department of State to conduct a thorough
   investigation of defense articles supplied by this government to Israel in
   order to determine Israel’s compliance with conditions imposed by the
   United States for receipt of military assistance pursuant to Section 2778 of
   the Arms Export Control Act: End-Use Monitoring of Defense Articles and
   Defense Services;
4. The United States Congress to withhold any further military assistance to
   Israel until the investigatory findings are reviewed and the Department of
   State makes a determination as to how to proceed with the sale of defense
   articles and services to Israel;
5. The United States Congress to establish an independent commission to
   monitor Israel’s compliance with the AECA and FAA;
6. United States citizens and residents to meet with their Senators and
   Representatives in Congress to share the NLG’s investigatory findings and
   to encourage them to call on the Department of State to conduct an Arms
   Export Control Act investigation.

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