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Challenges to international humanitarian law: Israel's occupation policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2013
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The complexity of the ever-shifting humanitarian landscape in the Middle East region – where the effects of perennial conflict and instability have rarely been contained within one country – is a major preoccupation for humanitarian organisations like the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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- The ICRC today
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- International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 94 , Issue 888: ICRC: 150 years of Humanitarian Action , December 2012 , pp. 1503 - 1510
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2013
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1 The Hague Convention of 1907 specifies that ‘territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army’. The form of administration by which an Occupying Power exercises government authority over occupied territory is called ‘military government’.
2 For more information on the ICRC's activities in favour of people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence, see: www.icrc.org/eng/what-we-do/index.jsp. All internet references were accessed in April 2013.
3 See, for example, ‘Implementation of the Fourth Geneva Convention in the occupied Palestinian territories: history of a multilateral process (1997–2001)’, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 84, No. 847, 2002.
4 ‘Israel/Occupied and Autonomous Palestinian Territories: West Bank Barrier causes serious humanitarian and legal problems’, Press Release No. 04/12, 18 February 2004, available at: www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/news-release/2009-and-earlier/5wacnx.htm.
5 ‘Legal Consequences of the construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (July 2004)’, available at: www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?pr=71&code=mwp&p1=3&p2=4&p3=6.
6 See UNSC Res. 242 of 1967, available at: http://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/0/7D35E1F729DF491C85256EE700686136.
7 See ‘Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory’, statement by the ICRC at the United Nations General Assembly, resumed tenth emergency special session, New York, 13 November 1997, available at: www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/57jntp.htm.
8 See ‘Action by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the event of violations of international humanitarian law or of other fundamental rules protecting persons in situations of violence’, in International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 87, No. 858, June 2005; ‘The International Committee of the Red Cross's (ICRC's) confidential approach’, policy document, December 2012, in International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 94, No. 887, Autumn 2012, available at: http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/article/review-2012/irrc-887-confidentiality.htm.
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