Starvation on Trial: Koblenz and the Case of Yarmouk

The article examines the siege of Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee district in Damascus, where starvation was used as a weapon of war by Syrian government forces and allies from 2013-2018, resulting in mass civilian casualties. Germany has taken steps to secure accountability for Syrian civil war violations through its asylum policies and is using its universal jurisdiction framework to prosecute these crimes, with Yarmouk cases becoming central to determining whether deliberate resource deprivation during siege warfare constitutes a prosecutable war crime.