The Rafah crossing from Egypt is still being used by Palestinians in Gaza to provide humanitarian aid.
More than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed on Israeli soil by a horrific Hamas operation that took place in southern Israel on October 7. This attack marked the beginning of the Gaza War.
The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), in the words of Umeagbalasi, “is in strong solidarity with the right of the State and People of Israel to defend themselves against any internal and external aggression, particularly their collective right to self-defend themselves and their properties such as territories, homes, and public institutions and facilities at all times.” This means that the coordinated terrorist acts carried out on October 7, 2023 by Hamas, other associated terror groups, and their sovereign backers are forcefully and unequivocally denounced.
“The attacks, which slaughtered at least 1,400 Israelis, including 286 soldiers and other nationals, including 31 Americans, and terminally injured 3,400 defenseless Israelis and others, are unspeakably repugnant and nothing short of a replication of the cannibalistic and barbaric era of ‘Saladin’ (Salah ad-Din ibn Ayyub: 1174D-March 4, 1193AD) of Egypt, during The jihadist strikes by Hamas also resulted in the kidnapping of 199 to 250 Israeli citizens, who are now being held captive. The massive degree of property destruction committed on the side of the State and defenseless Israeli civilians was astonishing and upsetting.
“The increasing number of civilian deaths and property damage in Gaza City is wholly reprehensible and is severely condemned. They are also blatant violations of the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 (Laws of the War) and its 1977 Protocols (1 and 11), which the State of Israel was required to have ratified as the “49th Member-State of the United Nations on May 12, 1949,” and nothing less than “reprisal radicalism and crudity” committed outside the bounds of “military necessity.” In accordance with the doctrines of “the Jus In Bellum,” “the Jus Ad Bellum,” and “the Jus Post Bellum,” as well as the “Principles of Use of Force, Proportionality of Force, and Legitimate Self,” the Inter-State and Intra-State Armed Conflicts are governed by the Four Geneva Conventions.
“Protocols 1 and 11 were added to the Geneva Conventions in 1977 in order to strengthen the protection of civilians and property victims of international armed conflicts (inter-state) and non-international armed conflicts (intra-state) and to impose restrictions on how wars are waged. Among these are the ban on attacking civilian residences, places of worship, and symbols, as well as the protection of civilian populations during inter- or intra-state armed conflicts, including journalists and aid workers. Other ones, according to Intersociety, include the ban of torture and famine.
