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Their strategy has always been collectively punishment. They have a whole doctrine for it call the Dahiya doctrine Here’s a bit of history lesson The IOF military strategy in 2006 was indiscriminate bombing and collective punishment. There is a whole doctrine about the 2006 military strategy of the IOF called the “Dahiya Doctrine”. The Dahiya doctrine is a military strategy attributed to the IOF that involves applying disproportionate force to destroy the “enemy's” civilian infrastructure, as a way of inflicting significant economic and political costs. The doctrine has been criticized for its potential to cause high civilian casualties and for being a form of collective punishment. It reflects a shift in Israeli military strategy towards using overwhelming force, and has been a subject of controversy and debate in the context of international law and human rights. In the words of Richard Falk “ it is not only an overt violation of the most elementary norms of the law of war and of universal morality, but an avowal of a doctrine of violence that needs to be called by its proper name: state terrorism.” https://truthout.org/articles/the-dahiya-doctrine-state-terrorism-and-a-philosophy-of-war-crime/ (A commander of an IDF MLRS unit told a Ha’aretz reporter, “What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs.”) https://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/lebanon0208/6.htm War crimes such as the use of incendiary weapons (white phosphorus bombs) were committed by the IOF against civilians! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/23/israel The UNCCW prohibits the deliberate use of incendiary weapons 1. Against civilian targets, which is also forbidden by the Geneva Conventions 2. The use of air-delivered incendiary weapons against military targets in civilian areas 3. The general use of other types of incendiary weapons against military targets located within concentrations of civilians without taking all possible means to minimize casualties. Therefore, using incendiary phosphorus bombs near civilians in a way that can lead to indiscriminate civilian casualties is restricted under international law. https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXVI-2&chapter=26&clang=_en https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/white-phosphorus "Human Rights Watch found no cases in which Hezbollah deliberately used civilians as shields to protect them from retaliatory IDF attack. In none of the cases of civilian deaths documented in this report is there evidence to suggest that Hezbollah forces or weapons were in or near the area that the IDF targeted during or just prior to the attack.” https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/08/02/fatal-strikes/israels-indiscriminate-attacks-against-civilians-lebanon Their strategy is collective punishment, it has always been collective punishment
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