My latest for
@ForeignAffairs
, taking stock of 8 months of underground warfare in Gaza. Israel never imagined becoming embroiled in an underground war of such proportions. Here are some of the lessons learned (not just for Israel).
@LauderSchool_RU
@Lieber_Inst
@WarInstitute
Hamas’s buildup of below-ground capabilities is unprecedented—and has no doubt caught the attention of other militaries and nonstate actors, all of which are noting how effective they have been for Hamas’s survival in Gaza, writes
@RichemondBarak
.
So difficult to protect soldiers from the dangers of tunnel warfare.
“Four soldiers were killed by a deadly blast from a booby-trapped tunnel shaft near a mosque, as 4 others sustained severe injuries, two in critical condition.”
Sadly the IDF cannot realistically and fully destroy Hamas's network of tunnels. Parts of the network are unknown. Some are unattainable. And for some of them the collateral damage will be too high. My interview for
@davidgritten
New book is out! It takes you on a multi-disciplinary, interactive journey into the International Court of Justice w/ model syllabi, moot court exercises, supplementary media on how cases are tried & ground-breaking data analysis on how states use the
#ICJ
.
@Brill_Law
Welcome to our Emirati friends! IDC has always been a trailblazer when it comes to studying in English in Israel. Come & study all about Israeli government/culture, about a changing Middle East and accompanying threats and opportunities. You will not regret it. Contact us! 🇦🇪 🇮🇱
A historic meeting between women who understand tolerance and aspire to peace. Moving, inspiring. So much to look forward to. With
@FleurHassanN
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem.
@UAEIsraelBiz
Does the International Court of Justice meet states' expectations? How do
#politics
and
#law
interact at the
#ICJ
? How often do
#states
use it and why? My new book includes model
#syllabi
, class activities, moot court exercises. 25% off w flyer attached.
@Brill_Law
@CIJ_ICJ
When France sought to eliminate ISIS following the brutal killing of innocent civilians in 2015 - did someone suggest that France should stop fighting in Syria and Iraq? That a peace process would be preferable?
@franceonu
#ProcheOrient
| "La trêve en cours doit devenir permanente et mener à un cessez-le-feu. La France appelle à relancer un processus de paix sans plus tarder. Procrastiner conduirait immanquablement à une reprise et à une aggravation des violences."
_ Amb
@NDeRiviere
“The destruction of Hamas’s subterranean structures must remain a top priority for the Israeli military. Leaders and fighters can be replaced, but Hamas will be hard pressed to recover and reorganize while being exposed and unable to hide.”
Tunnel detection alert! "Detectors capable of detecting muons - high energy charged particles produced by cosmic rays in the upper layers of atmosphere" enabled the discovery of underground Greek tombs without any digging
@SapperGeologist
@SpencerGuard
"The fact that Hamas terrorists have been down there for more than two months is unbelievable. The fact that someone can hide underground for so long shows that they have built a strategy around it."
@RND_de
Lauder School of Government at Reichman University
And totally ignorant of the reality of underground warfare. What does it take to detect a tunnel? Make it safe for exploration and mapping? Huge risks facing the forces and the difficulty of finding tunnels even when you have good intel. Even more so when enemy had wks to get out
It's really amazing how many journalists expected the IDF to pull back a curtain at the Shifa Terror Complex and go, "Ta-da!" on Day 1. Totally unrealistic expectations, disconnected from reality.
The
@ReichmanUni
team has just won the ICRC competition in the laws of war! It was competing against all other universities in Israel. Our students and amazing coach have done so well! 👏
@IDCLauderSchool
💪
Our students have made it to the finals of the
@ICRC
competition in Int’l humanitarian law! We couldn’t be prouder. Watch the final live today at 4pm Isr Time
@IDCLauderSchool
@ReichmanUni
Kuddos to
@moran_zaga
for bringing up UAE/Israel research & academic cooperation. Thru education we plant the seeds for warm peace.
@IDCHerzliya
invited students from 🇦🇪🇲🇦🇧🇭 & joint research is also in the making.
@sharakango
#AbrahamAccords
Blinken: Hamas hold major stocks of fuel (est. 200,000 gallons). The fuel is used for electricity & ventilation in the tunnels. Meanwhile hospitals can't operate. Do not send any additional fuel to Gaza. It will only prolong this underground war.
Can technology be harnessed at the end of war to protect civilians, POWs, refugees, and displaced persons? The End of War project met
@Lieber_Inst
at West Point to advance a new research agenda & change how we think of tech in war.
@LauderSchool_RU
@EmoryLaw
@ICT_org
#EWP
My latest: Is Israel Winning the Underground Fight?
@smallwars
Detecting four cross-border
#tunnels
at the Lebanese border is a geological and tech achievmt. But questions remain about whether boobytrapping is enough to eliminate threat. Lessons from two weeks of
#NorthernShield
SWJ Tonight - "Is Israel Winning the Underground Fight?" by Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak (
@RichemondBarak
) - Tunnel warfare has become as central to modern conflicts as it was in centuries past.
It is with great pride and excitement that we welcome our colleague, friend and former Dean, Prof. Boaz Ganor, who founded the world renowned International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (
@ICT_org
) as the new President of Reichman University!
@ReichmanUni
@LauderSchool_RU
Very excited about this new role, and about working w
@assafmoghadam
and his team, Jonathan Davis, Ori Barzel, and the entire
@IDCHerzliyaRRIS
Faculty & Students! It’s not easy to fill Lesley Terris’ shoes; thank you for your trust 🙏🏼
Lauder School of Government at Reichman University
@IDCLauderSchool
is proud to announce the nomination of Dr. Lesley Terris as the new Deputy Dean, and of
@RichemondBarak
as the new Head of the International Program in Government. Congratulations and good luck!
I sat down for a conversation with
@peterbergencnn
. Peter Bergen exposed Bin Laden’s network of caves and tunnels. A lot has happened since then, but tunnels have been featured in virtually every conflict since 9/11. Today in Gaza they are shaping the fight.
@ReichmanUni
Insights from Shusha, a city back in Nagorno-Karabakh territory, over which Azerbaijan regained control in 2020. A combination of mountainous and urban
#warfare
. This is the winning combo: the video + analysis .
@WarInstitute
#war
Just arrived at
@asilorg
annual meeting
#asilam
only to see my book proudly displayed
@OUPIntLaw
. Come to tomorrow’s meeting of Law & Tech IG to hear more about
#undergroundwarfare
and how ISIS chose the underground as its last and final hideout in Eastern Syria
The Iron Sting could play a critical role in eliminating underground structures: "The weapon consists of a 120 mm mortar that uses GPS and laser guidance to precisely hit targets. It has a range of 1-12 km. and can penetrate double-reinforced concrete."
Just arrived in The Hague for
#REAIM
. A place where I have so many personal and professional memories. A place central to my family’s story. It’s good to be back.
PRESS RELEASE:
#France
files a declaration of intervention under Article 63 of the
#ICJ
Statute in the case concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (
#Ukraine
v.
#Russia
)
What’s Russia’s perspective on Int’l law and security? This morning
@KseniaSvetlova
shared her impressive knowledge with students
@LauderSchool_RU
Thank you!
Unprecedented at the
@CIJ_ICJ
: 13 states have requested to join Ukraine's lawsuit against Russia. In chronological order: Lithuania, Latvia, New Zealand, UK, Germany, USA, Sweden, Romania, France, Denmark, Italy, Poland and just two days ago, Ireland. To be cont'd.
The End of War Project has been hard at work to shift policy towards more
#humanitarian
#AI
, and the use of emerging tech to ease the suffering of
#civilians
during and after conflict. Excited to share more about it at
#REAIM
next month.
#EWP
#TheHague
Our students were lucky to hear today from Israel’s first Ambassador to the UAE and newly appointed (also first) Ambassador to Bahrain. Thank you
@AmbassadorNaeh
and good luck!
@IDCLauderSchool
@ReichmanUni
Well, I did it. First class teaching online and in person simultaneously. It was at 8am yet so many students came. Major emphasis on students at home. Great zoom/in class interaction. Palpable excitement on their end and on my end.
#pandemic
#challenge
@IDCLauderSchool
The unique
@peterbergencnn
brought us together to discuss the war w Hamas -
@SpencerGuard
&
@LiamSCollins
understand urban fighting better than anyone. It took 9 months to retake Mosul from ISIS - a combination of urban and subterranean warfare very similar to the terrain in Gaza
Do the sanctions against Russia embody a paradigm shift in the international order? Presented new research written with
@DanGanor
at the conference of the Israel Political Science Association - w
@maoz_ro
@ACavari
@liorherman
@gbarzil
Sivan Hirsch & Amichai Magen in attendance!
In an unprecedented assessment, Ronen Bar, the Director of the Israel Security Agency, referred today to the ongoing conflict war against Hamas as “a war of tunnel pits”.
״מלחמת פירים״
Tunnels are the single most important challenge facing forces in Gaza.
Thrilled to accompany our Dean
@assafmoghadam
in welcoming Mansoor - the FIRST Emirati student coming to Israel - for his studies in Government
@IDCLauderSchool
! Thank you 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇦🇪 for the
#AbrahamAccords
. This is how we build a more stable and prosperous
#MiddleEast
. 💪💪
It's easy to criticize the order to evacuate 1.1 million civilians to the South of the Gaza Strip. What are the options here? Only two: Evacuate or not evacuate the civilian population. Which one is preferable?
@LCI
@Frclemenceau
#urbanwarfare
We don't know yet what role tunnels played in Hamas's horrendous attack ag Israel - assume they were used to invade Israeli territory, kidnap hostages, and perhaps even to infiltrate Northern Israel. Thanks
@ColinPClarke
for sharing and SCT for publishing.
@hoffman_bruce
@ICT_org
"The Rise of Tunnel Warfare as a Tactical, Operational, and Strategic Issue" by
@RichemondBarak
& Stefan Voiculescu-Holvad in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism would seem to be essential reading at the moment
Is the Pakistani army using tunnels to get jihadi fighters across the international border? India could soon seek advice from Israel on how to handle cross-border tunnel infiltrations. .
ICT's Executive Director, Boaz Ganor was presented with an award for outstanding
#research
and senior researcher
@RichemondBarak
was presented an award for outstanding
#teaching
.
Congratulations to both Prof. Ganor and Dr. Richemond-Barak!
(2/2)
An evening to celebrate the work of
@forumdvorah
, and the pleasure of listening to Adv. Michal Herzog, the talented and inspiring First Lady of Israel.
@Isaac_Herzog
To make Zoom classes more appealing I created a music
#syllabus
for my International Law class. I play the music as students enter the "room"; then we discuss how it relates to the topic of the day. Sharing it here. Send more ideas!
Thread 1/12
#AcademicTwitter
@LauderSchool_RU
Low tech v. High tech - the reality of tunnel warfare: « A major threat that the division is working to counter is the large amount of tunnels Hamas has, from which operatives pop out and launch RPGs at armored vehicles, and attempt to ambush forces. »
IDF releases information on the 36th Division’s operations in the Gaza Strip over the past week, during which its forces led a maneuver across the territory, reaching its coastline.
“The role of the division is to surround Gaza City, to attack and destroy selected targets,
What is Palestine? Gaza? West Bank? East Jerusalem? And is it a state? ICC will have to resolve though questions in the coming months. Excellent analysis
@just_security
by Jeremie Bracka:
@hoffman_bruce
True. And Egypt has over the years adopted very stringent measures (flooding, barriers, and bulldozers razing the border) to destroy Hamas' cross-border tunnels between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Celebrated my birthday in the fascinating man-made caves of Beit Guvrin, Israel. Underground caves used for water storage, agriculture (colombarium, olive press), and burial during the Roman era. A
@UNESCO
#worldheritagesite
you should visit.
Looks like major terror attack happening now in the streets of Tel Aviv. On Dizengoff. We thought it was over but it’s not. At least five people hurt. Developing.
Excellent analysis by
@aurelsari
of the legality of destroying Hamas tunnels w/ seawater, cognizant of the reality of subT warfare. What stood out for me: does not amount to unnecessary suffering + no effective alternative method available.
@Lieber_Inst
Breaking News:
@IDCLauderSchool
and
@MirYamInstitute
have partnered and are excited to launch the first IDC MirYam Institute Visiting Fellowship! We are honored that
@LiamSCollins
will be the first recipient of this prestigious Fellowship & look forward to many more.
@ReichmanUni
The
@LauderSchool_RU
extends a warm welcome to Col (ret.) Kim Campbell
@kchawg987
who will be teaching abt Leadership & International Security as the 2023 RU-MirYam Institute Visiting Professor.
Where does Israel want to be in 10 y when it comes to the UN and international courts? + the implications of the ICC decision on Palestine’s request to investigate acts committed by Israelis (+ Palestinians) on its territory
@IDCLauderSchool
@ArenaJournal
הצפת המנהרות במי ים? למה לא. חייבים לחשוב יצירתי. מדובר (1) על כמות מאד גבוהה של מים ו(2) על לחץ גבוה שמסוגל לגרום לקריסת התשתית התת קרקעית (hard kill). תקדימי, עם פוטנציאל רב.
@N12News
@LauderSchool_RU
@forumdvorah
I received this today! Will be helpful for my class on human security and the concept of security in Int’l relations and Int’l law. Perfect gift! Thank you
@Lieber_Inst
and congrats to Prof. Hitoshi Nasu!
🧵 My latest in
@TheEconomist
looks at how an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza would face the problem of Hamas' vast underground tunnel network, which extends for hundreds of kilometres. Tunnels exacerbate many of the hardest challenges in urban warfare.
@SpencerGuard
@IDF
Is there anything better than being invited to
@SpencerGuard
’s podcast? Being invited again. Thanks for an opportunity to reflect on how Hamas’s underground military infrastructure can be eliminated given Israel’s three-layered problem: urban, subT, and now hostages.