Course of War 12 Jul Start of conflict

13 Jul Air & sea blockade

14 Jul Nasrallah’s offices bombed

26 Jul UN observer post attacked

11 Aug UN resolution 1701

14 Aug Start of Cease-fire

7 Sep Blockades lifted

1 Oct Complete withdrawal

Now Deployment of local army

Deployment of UNIFIL

Lethal skirmishes

Legality Hezbollah’s capture of two Israeli solders

Where? Israel: Zar’it Hezbollah: Ayta ash-Shab Violation of IHL

Art 13,Part II, III Geneva ConventionICJ: treating POW as hostages = War Crime

Israel’s self-defencePossession of right to self-defense Article 51 of UN Charter Undue and excessive force used Article 51 of UN Charter Caroline Case ICJ: War Crime

Use of Cluster Bombs What are cluster bombs?

IL on warfare weapons

UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)

Hague Convention of 1907

Geneva Protocol in 1925

Criticisms

Excessive use

Indiscriminate attack

Israel’s response

• maps indicate the likely location of unexploded ordnance

• recommend displaced residents not to return so quickly

Attack civilian targets

IL

Article 3 Common to the Geneva Conventions of 1949

Article 48, Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

Israel’s response

Hezbollah is to be blamed

Advanced warnings

People stayed behind:

chose to stay

too old or too poor to leave

forced to stay:

• destroyed roads

• fierce onslaught on the escape routes