The Hawija airstrike: Reverberating effects on civilians under international humanitarian law

摘要: 1. Introduction In the late evening of 13 April 2022, de Balie, a theatre in Amsterdam, was packed with an audience attending a public event entitled: The Effects of the Dutch Airstrike on Hawija. Hawija, anIraqi city located 210 km north of Baghdad, was the target of an airstrike on 2–3 June 2015. The audience in the Amsterdam theatre was informed of some of the traceable points of continuation between the attack in 2015 and the state of affairs in Hawija in 2021 and 2022. The airstrike was one of 34,000 airstrikes conducted as part of the US-led military operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). 1 The Amsterdam event featured the research report After the Strike 2 as well as the Dutch documentary film When the Bomb Falls, 3 which tracked the direct and indirect effects of the airstrike on civilian lives and set the stage for panel discussions. Throughout the public event, the audience was invited to …