Israel and international humanitarian law

The license Israel is giving itself in its response to Gaza is shaking the fragile balance between military necessity and the imperatives of humanity. All of which further weakens the prospects of a peace that is anything other than a prologue to future confrontations.

More than four months after the coordinated attacks carried out on October 7 by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups, which killed almost 1,200 people, wounded more than 5,000 and took some 250 hostages, of whom around 130 are still being held hostage, many are questioning the excessive nature of the military response and measures taken since then by the Hebrew state in the name of its right to defend itself against such actions, the terrorist nature of which certainly leaves no room for doubt.

According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs