FLEEING THE WAR IN GAZA: INTERPRETATIVE FRAMEWORKS AND INTERNATIONAL LEGALITY
Antonio ZOTTI [a] [b] (ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6034-4919)
Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice [Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political Science series]
Vol. XXVII (2025), Online first
https://doi.org/10.54885/AUB-SP-CSDE6417
[b] Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italy
In this article, I identify two prominent frameworks through which the latest manifestation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been understood and discussed within Western public discourses: (1) the human and (2) the (inter-)state dimension. I then argue that, through these lenses, the Gazan population’s predicament and the possible solutions to it have been approached primarily in terms of violation of human rights and self-determination, and Palestine’s statehood. Based on this premise, the article argues that these frameworks, far from being mutually congruent, overlook the distinctive circumstances of the Gazan displaced and fleeing population and the specific legal status of refugees and asylum seekers in the troubled context.
Keywords: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Gaza, interpretative frameworks, dimensions of conflict, refugee status, refugee protection regimes
Antonio ZOTTI is Research fellow at the Department of Political Science of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan. Contact: antonio.zotti@unicatt.it
ZOTTI, Antonio. 2025. Fleeing the War in Gaza: Interpretative Frameworks and International Legality. Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice [Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political Science series] XXVII: Online first. https://doi.org/10.54885/AUB-SP-CSDE6417
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