Israel–Hamas Conflict: Between Legitimate Combat and Inadmissible Violence

There is no denying the fact that Israel has taken precautions in the military campaign like warning civilians to vacate north Gaza and go towards the South of the Strip through designated routes, and other measures yet the casualties have been high.6 One of the main reasons is that Gaza Strip is one of the world’s most densely populated regions and the inevitable proximity of military targets to. [...] The protection of hospitals during armed conflicts is primarily addressed in the Geneva Conventions, particularly Article 18 of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention,7 which states: Civilian hospitals organised to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the con. [...] Though unmatched in the tally of the Axis powers and the victims of the holocaust, none the less, it was something not to be imitated and what one would expect from the powers at war with Nazism. [...] In the words of the author David Irving who is British, “For the first time in the history of the war, an air raid had wrecked a target so disastrously that there were not enough able-bodied survivors to bury the dead.” By comparison the American raid on Tokyo on the night of 9 March 1945, killed 83,793 people, and the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 71,379. [...] 100: Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field,” more popularly known as the “Lieber Code” The Lieber Code was later used as a template for international efforts in the late 19th century to codify the laws and customs of war alongwith the efforts of Henry Dunant and the Red Cross movement that arose out of the Battle at Solferino18 The Lieber Code states in ar.