War between Hamas and Israel: “I see the risk of an abyss, an impasse and a warlike logic,” laments Yohann Soufi, former head of the UN legal affairs office

On the sidelines of Joe’s visit Biden in Israel, Wednesday October 18, a summit between the United States, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority has been postponed. “From I have been working in international justice for 15 years, working on the repression of crimes. I arrive 10, 15 years after the fact. We say: ‘never again’, ‘something must be done to prevent crimes’. Today, before my eyes, I see the same scenarios, the same impasse in international diplomacy“, regrets Yohann Soufi, former head of the UN legal affairs office, who believes that the “leaders“, especially Westerners,”are not up to the occasion“.

“A warlike logic”

According to him, “the tools of multilateralism, the UN, diplomats, must think of future generations“. Asked about a potential general conflagration in the Middle East, he replied that he feared, in fact, “a conflagration“. “I see the spiral, I see the risk of an abyss, of an impasse and of a warlike logic“, regrets the legal which specifies that this “warlike logic“invisibilizes”Civil society” who is “held ostage“.