Hawija: The Destructive Realities of Our Remote War Against IS

In 2015, the Iraqi town of Hawija is bombed. An entire neighbourhood is destroyed and at least 85 civilians are killed. It takes four years before Dutch investigative journalists discover who was responsible for the attack: the Netherlands. PhD candidate Jip van Dort , associate professor of Conflict Studies Lauren Gould and lecturer in Liberal Arts and Sciences Marrit Woudwijk , all involved in Intimacies of Remote Warfare , investigated the bombing and have compiled their findings in the new publication 'Hawija'. The airstrike was supposed to take out an Islamic State munition's factory, but led to huge secondary explosions. The fact that Dutch F-16s carried out this bombing was not to be known to anyone. Various perspectives.