A/HRC/2/8 page 16 Notes 1 See High Relief Council, at www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb. 2 See advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, of 9 July 2004 on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, para. 106. 3 See Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Louise Doswald-Beck, Customary International Humanitarian Law, ICRC, 2005. 4 Additional Protocol I, art. 85 (3); Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, art. 8 (2) (b). 5 Ibid. 6 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, article 8 (2) (b). 7 ICRC, cited in Amnesty International, 23 August 2006, “Israel/Lebanon -Deliberate destruction or ‘collateral damage’? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure”. 8 Amnesty International appeal of 9 August 2006, MDE 15/076/2006. 9 High Relief Council, 12 September 2006. 10 See Agence France Presse (AFP), “Israel says it will bomb all moving vehicles south of Litani River”, 8 August 2006. 11 Human Rights Watch, “Fatal strikes: Israel’s indiscriminate attacks against civilians in Lebanon” vol. 18, No. 3. 12 International Herald Tribune, 22/23 of July 2006. 13 Roland Huguenin, ICRC spokesperson in Tyre, quoted in Le Matin (Switzerland), 13 August 2006. 14 The High Relief Council told the Special Rapporteur that it had distributed (for a family of four) 26 kg packages of food including rice, sugar, tea, jam, lentils, salt, milk, etc. every two weeks. They also distributed hygiene kits and packets of food and items for babies. 15 See World Food Programme, Lebanon Crisis. WFP Rapid Food Security Assessment, 27 August-10 September 2006. 16 International Herald Tribune, 31 July 2006. 17 See note 15 above. 18 Ibid. 19 20 Oxfam, press release “Lebanese farmers in crisis after month of war”, 31 August 2006. FAO, First Assessment Report, Lebanon, September 2006. 21 Government of Lebanon, Ministry of Agriculture, “Preliminary Report: War Damage Assessment in the Agricultural Sector”, September 2006. 22 Ibid. 23 Discussion with informants, 15 September 2006.

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