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Questions & Answers on Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah

Pallets of 155mm artillery projectiles, including DPICM cluster munitions, in the arsenal of an Israeli artillery unit. (copyright: Human Rights Watch, 2006)
Pallets of 155mm artillery projectiles, including DPICM cluster munitions, in the arsenal of an Israeli artillery unit. (copyright: Human Rights Watch, 2006)
In accordance with its mandate to address the jus in bello, as opposed to the jus ad bellum, of military conflicts, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a Q&A clarifying the international humanitarian laws pertaining to the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. Posted alongside open letters to Syrian President Bashar al-Asad, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the report emphasizes that, while no specific international prohibition outlaws their use, so-called ‘cluster munitions’ — such as those used by Israeli forces during their July 19 attack on Blida and by Hezbollah in their rocket-attacks on Haifa — cannot be targeted precisely and so constitute an infringement of both sides’ obligation not to target civilians… The HRW material makes for sober reading, regardless of whether you incline to former U.S. House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich’s view that the “Third World War” has begun or Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery’s analysis that:
From this war nothing good will come — not for Israel, not for Lebanon and not for Palestine. The “New Middle East” that will be its result will be a worse place to live in.”

28 July 2006 | 04.39pm (CEST) | posted by Joe | |
TAGS Peace & Security | Justice & Civil Rights | Human Rights | Ethical Values & Responsibility

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