During World War II, something like 60 million people died.
Humanity had never seen anything like this.
So with great post-war optimism, people decided never again.
We built a legal infrastructure.
We called it international humanitarian law that essentially said this.
You can wage a war, but while you are waging a war, there are certain things you can't do.
And we labeled them war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
We built courts where you could take people who were accused of breaking the law.
And we believed that while imperfect,
the laws backed up by the courts could prevent and prosecute crimes of war.
Then came Hamas's attack on Israel and Israel's war in Gaza,
and that legal infrastructure fell apart.
and it fell apart as Israel was accused of the most serious of the crimes, genocide.
Coming up on Today Explained, how this war broke the law.
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