International humanitarian law dictates the rules combatants should follow – with a central tenet that ‘civilians should not be targeted’
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Amid the horror of the attacks by Hamas on Israel and the response by the Israeli military in Gaza, there have been calls for both sides to abide by international law and accusations of breaches.
So what is the framework of international laws that is supposed to govern war or armed conflicts?
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