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• 🗣️ Fabrizio Carboni: ‘People tend to believe we can do things that we cannot do’. The ICRC has been facilitating the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, a delicate operation made possible by its neutrality. But the organisation’s work can be misunderstood, says its Middle East head.
  Swissinfo (EN)
• ⚖️ Is the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan fit for purpose? Karim Khan’s unprecedented politicisation of the International Criminal Court has significantly eroded the credibility of the court just as he should be taking serious steps to address its declining legitimacy, write the authors of this opinion piece.
  PassBlue (EN)
• 😷 A wait in vain? Long-awaited US report Covid diagnostics and therapeutics makes little impact at WTO. An almost 500-page report on Covid-19 diagnostics and therapeutics published by the US will be the basis for renewed discussions on extending the Trips waiver at the WTO, but it does not seem to have made much of a difference.
  Geneva Health Files (EN)
• 🇺🇳 UN calls for ‘irreversible’ move toward two-state solution to Israel crisis. UN Geneva chief Tatiana Valovaya said on Wednesday that “Israel and Palestine (should live) side-by-side in peace and security with Jerusalem as the capital of both states”.
  Reuters (EN)
• 🏅 Trafficked Olympic champion Mo Farah joins UN migration agency. Four-time Olympic gold medal winner Mo Farah, who was born in Somalia and trafficked to Britain as a child, joined the IMO on 28 November as its first global goodwill ambassador.
  AFP via France 24 (EN)