Omer Shatz

Omer Shatz is a French-Israeli human rights lawyer known for filings at the International Criminal Court on Gaza and on European migration policy.

ICC filing on Gaza incitementCase against European migration officialsCo-founding We Are Refugees

Occupation: human rights defender, lawyer
Education: Yale Law School

The story of Omer Shatz's life

Omer Shatz was born in 1980 or 1981. He lived in Israel until 2014. He earned a Master's degree in law at Yale Law School.

Shatz worked as a senior associate at the law firm Shearman & Sterling in France. He later taught international law at Sciences Po in Paris and taught at the American University of Paris in 2025. He was also appointed a researcher at the Central European University Law Clinic Project for 2023 to 2026.

In 2010, during a case against Yoav Gallant at Israel's Supreme Court, Shatz and his colleagues told the judges the matter could one day reach The Hague. He co-founded We Are Refugees, a group giving free legal help to asylum seekers. He became legal director of Front Lex, which defends migrants' rights.

In December 2024 he filed a 170-page submission to the International Criminal Court alleging incitement to genocide in Gaza by 7 Israeli officials and a journalist, including Benjamin Netanyahu and Isaac Herzog. In October 2025 he and colleagues, including Juan Branco, asked the court to prosecute 122 European officials over migration policies.