A group of leading academics, legal experts and human rights advocates have called for the creation of a UN-mandated international military force to stop Israel’s 22-month-long war on the besieged Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Monday, Richard Falk, the president of the Gaza Tribunal Project and a former UN special rapporteur, called on the international community to implement the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle.

“Law has failed, because it has not been enforced,” Falk said at a press conference in Istanbul as he urged the international community to use R2P as a framework for intervention. He noted that the lack of enforcement had left Palestinians unprotected despite clear evidence of mass atrocities.

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