A/HRC/3/2 page 130 26 A/60/938 -S/2006/518, op. cit. See also UN Doc. A/60/941-S/2006/529, Identical letters dated 17 July 2006 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council, 17 July 2006. 27 Ibid. See also Prime Minister Siniora address to the Rome Conference, 28 July 2006 http://www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb/english/F/eNews/NewsArticle.asp?CNewsID=21 (retrieved on 7 November 2006). 28 See also, A/60/941-S/2006/529, op. cit. 29 A/60/937-S/2006/515, Identical letters dated 12 July 2006 from the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council, 12 July 2006. See also “Special Cabinet communiqué - Hizbollah attack”, op. cit. 30 “PM Olmert: Lebanon is responsible and will bear the consequences”, op. cit. 31 Saad-Ghorayeb, A. Hezbollah Politics and Religion, Pluto Press, London, 2002; Harik, J.P., Hezbollah - The Changing Face of Terrorism, I.B. Taurus & Co. Ltd., London, 2004. 32 Lebanese cabinet’s policy statement of May 2005 states: “The government regards the Lebanese resistance a true and natural expression of the natural right of the Lebanese people in defending its territory and dignity by confronting the Israeli threat and aggression and Israeli ambitions (...) to complete the liberation of Lebanese territories. It [the government] affirms its concern for the prisoners’ issue (…)”. See also “The Shiites return to cabinet ends a period of political deterioration”, 4 Feb. 2006; Nasrallah Elias Murr discuss military cooperation, 22 April 2006; Hamade Declaration that Hezbollah is a national resistance annuls 1559, Feb. 2006, in the Daily Star, Beirut. 33 Cf. Lebanese cabinet’s policy statement of May 2005, op. cit. 34 Address of His Excellency General Emile Lahoud, President of the Republic of Lebanon, to the Nation, 18 August 2006 http://www.presidency.gov.lb/president/presidspeech/speech18-806e/18aug06speeche.htm (retrieved on 7 November 2006). 35 36 English translation: “An attacked can be a party to a conflict.” Baxter, R.R. ‘The Duties of Combatants and the conduct of hostilities (Law of the Hague)’ in Henry Dunant Institute/UNESCO/M. Nijhoff, International Dimensions of Humanitarian Law, Paris, 1988 p. 95; David, E. Principes de Droit des Conflits Armés, Troisième Edition Bruylant, Bruxelles, p. 109, 2002; Greenwood, C. “The Concept of War in Modern International Law”, 1987, Vol. 36, I.C.L.Q, p. 295. Cf. “In the end, one essential criterion for the existence of an international armed conflict emerged from the discussions, namely the use of armed force by a State (even if the adversary offers no resistance). The discussions also revealed a number of complementary criteria that might play a role, such as hostile intent (animus belligerendi), the duration of the acts of violence, and their intensity, the latter being measured by examining a