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[District Court of the Hague] Ziada v. Gantz and Eshel; [ECtHR] Ziada vs. The State of the Netherlands

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[District Court of the Hague] Ziada v. Gantz and Eshel; [ECtHR] Ziada vs. The State of the Netherlands

Ismail Ziada, a Dutch citizen of Palestinian descent, who lost his family in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge on July 20 2014, filed a lawsuit against Benny Gantz, Israel’s former IDF Chief of Staff, and Amir Ashel, Israel’s former Air Force Chief.

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Cause of Action: Domestic
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Legal Director, Jessica Stober, is an international human rights lawyer with over 20 years of experience advancing justice and accountability for victims of serious human rights violations. A UK-qualified solicitor, she began her career in criminal defence and mental health law with leading UK firms Hodge, Jones & Allen and Birnberg Pierce, renowned for representing vulnerable clients and challenging miscarriages of justice. 

For more than 15 years, Jessica has led high-impact justice initiatives with the United Nations and international NGOs in conflict-affected contexts including Sri Lanka, Sudan (Darfur), Afghanistan, Palestine, and the Rohingya crisis. Her work has ranged from designing survivor-focused legal interventions to building national networks that strengthen access to justice. Among her key achievements, she established a legal clinic for survivors of sexual violence perpetrated by the security services in Darfur for UNDP; created a Sri Lanka-wide legal assistance programme for women and children survivors of sexual violence with Legal Action Worldwide; convened the first-ever national training and networking programme for all female judges, prosecutors, and lawyers in Afghanistan for the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute; and advised the UN Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Coordinator on the international law implications of providing legal aid in negotiations concerning the forcible transfer of Bedouin communities, prohibited under international humanitarian law.

Jessica has specialised in accountability for violations arising from the Israeli occupation of Palestine for more than 13 years, including five years in-country with the Norwegian Refugee Council. She currently serves on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s Team of Experts on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict and has been trained by the International Institute for Criminal Investigations in the investigation of sexual and gender-based crimes.

She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in International Justice from the University of London.

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Head of Community Engagement, Basel Adra, is a Palestinian lawyer, activist, and award-winning filmmaker with a decade’s experience documenting human rights abuses in the West Bank, including for +972 Magazine. Basel’s autobiographical film, No Other Land, which he co-directed, won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film and several awards at the 2024 Berlinale Film Festival, among others. Basel holds an LL.B. from Hebron University with a concentration in private law.

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Founder & Executive Director, Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man, is an expert in International Humanitarian Law and Israeli military and administrative law, and a litigator with two decades of experience defending Palestinian human rights in Israeli, foreign, and international tribunals. 

From 2006-2017, she served as staff attorney, then managing attorney, at the Michael Sfard Law Office in Tel Aviv, arguing landmark cases before the Israeli Supreme Court and serving as legal counsel to NGOs, including: Yesh Din, Breaking the Silence, Who Profits, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Al-Haq, and Human Rights Watch. She has represented more than 500 Palestinian victims of crimes committed by Israeli security forces as well as scores of Palestinian and foreign experts and human rights practitioners denied entry to Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. She has been called as an expert in Israel’s military occupation before the UN Security Council, the UN Committee on Palestine, the Russell Tribunal, as well as the Israeli Military Advocate General and Attorney General. Emily has authored several academic articles and reports, and her opinion pieces have been published in the International Herald Tribune, Foreign Policy, Haaretz, +972 Magazine, and the Jerusalem Post. She is an adjunct professor of human rights law at American University and a senior legal consultant for LexCollective. In 2009, Emily was selected as one of Ode Magazine's 25 Intelligent Optimists; in 2020 she received the IIE Goldberg Prize for Peace in the Middle East; and she was a 2021 Echoing Green Finalist for her founding of Global Echo. She holds a B.A. with Distinction in Political Science from Goucher College and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley Law School and is licensed to practice law in California, Israel, and Washington, D.C.

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