Question: Are there rules for using armed drones in war?
Answer: Yes, there are rules governing the use of armed drones in warfare, primarily drawn from international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law. These rules emphasize the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution in attack, ensuring that civilians and civilian objects are protected. While IHL doesn't specifically prohibit armed drones, their use is subject to these established principles.
You can read these principles in the embedded documents.
Please note that the documents contain data intended to be indicative, as we only record what we come across.
The Dahiya doctrine, or Dahya doctrine, is an Israeli belligerent tactic involving the large-scale destruction of civilian infrastructure, or domicide, to pressure hostile targeted parties. The doctrine is named after the Dahieh neighborhood (also transliterated as Dahiyeh and Dahiya) of Beirut, where Hezbollah had its headquarters during the 2006 Lebanon War.
The doctrine was outlined by former Israeli Chief of General Staff Gadi Eizenkot. The Israeli Colonel Gabi Siboni wrote that Israel "should target economic interests and the centers of civilian power that support the organization". The logic is to harm the civilian population so much that they will then turn against the targeted party, forcing that party to sue for peace.
In the context of the Gaza "war," GLOSM/PARES documents the use of this doctrine since October 22, 2023, and continues to see a pattern that it is not about "targeting economic interest." It is about conflating the targeting of interests as the same by destroying objects used for food production, healthcare, humanitarian assistance, housing, education, religion, culture, and heritage, including people who are either inside or in the vicinity of these objects in populated areas, to force people to turn against the resistance, and to force the resistance to surrender.
However, the archive of the Daliyah doctrine on populated areas is about what you read: 'areas'. The doctrine has been used on many levels, including acts, which you normally would describe as genocide.
GLOSM/PARES considers the use of this doctrine on populated areas as an act part of the crime of extermination.
The tabs below are reserved for reports that we will publish after the completion of the development of the database, and are able to let the database produce data reports.
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Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, resulting in a level below that needed to maintain an organism's life. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage. In Gaza, it leads to a slow-paced death.
Unlike reports in the media, we put collected and documented information in the context of where it originated, which many people in the world have already forgotten.
Because "no food" as ordered by Yoav Gallant in October 2023 has been conflated by subjecting the order to all levels of food accessibility. It has nothing to do with keeping food away from Hamas, as everyone in Gaza has been, and is still, treated as Hamas.
The data reports on this page are about how the Israelis are seeking ways to prevent all Palestinians in Gaza from obtaining food.
Please note that the documents contain data intended to be indicative, as we only record what we come across.
GENOCIDE i
There is the act of genocide, which means crimes amounting to genocide, which we term 'genocide I', and there is the act of expression to incite, fuel, inflame, and support the act of genocide, which we term 'genocide II'.
STARVATION
Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage. In Gaza, it leads to a slow-paced death.
TARGETING HUMANITARIAN AID
In the context of Gaza, humanitarian aid is material and logistical assistance to people in need who are homeless, refugees, and victims of Israeli wars and famine. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity. But Israeli practices of conflation and organized instigation of staging protests at border crossings and attacking aid convoys have prompted us to put the research targeting and or destroying humanitarian aid in the context of starvation, as the Israelis are hiding willfully behind their unproven claims, and the captives while having more than 9.000 Palestinian illegally in concentration camps.
Please note that the documents contain data intended to be indicative, as we only record what we come across.
This research is not ready for publication yet.
GENOCIDE i
There is the act of genocide, which means committing crimes amounting to genocide, which we term 'genocide I', and there is the act of expression to incite, fuel, inflame, and support the act of genocide, which we term 'genocide II'. However, we distinguish the act of expression from the act of resorting to the act of support by foreign governments, as the latter is either collusion, complicity, or both, depending on what factors are involved.
STARVATION
Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage. In Gaza, it leads to a slow-paced death.
Force rationized food availability is a term we use to refer to food distribution via field kitchens and similar food distribution points as they emerge as a result of the Israeli occupying belligerent's weaponization of food using the method of blocking food supply into Gaza.
Please note that the documents contain data intended to be indicative, as we only record what we come across.