'The army seems to be asking the Supreme Court to restrain it'

From: The Jerusalem Report | Date: September 20, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Law professor Eyal Benvenisti on the new thinking over applying the 4th Geneva Convention in the West Bank and Gaza For decades, Israeli governments have argued that the West Bank and Gaza Strip are not occupied territory, meaning that Israel is not legally bound to apply the 4th Geneva Convention there. After the Six-Day War, the government promised the Supreme Court that it would honor the convention's humanitarian clauses, protecting the residents of the territories - de facto, as a gesture, but not de jure. In recent weeks, however - especially in light of the ruling by the ...

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