A/HRC/2/7
page 34
77
Ibid. Also see The Situation of Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in the conflict
opposing Hizbollah (Lebanon) to the State of Israel, NDH/ALEF, 1 August 2006, and Health and
Psychological Assistance Commission Report for the Victims of War in South Lebanon,
LRC, 9 August 2006. For further discussion of mental health issues in Lebanon, see para. 88.
78
http://www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb/english/F/Main/index.asp.
79
Ibid.
80
On 25 July 2006, for example, leaflets warned that anyone present in areas from which
rockets are being launched would endanger his or her life. Another leaflet dropped on the same
day called upon “all citizens south of the Litani river … to evacuate your villages and move
north of the Litani river.” Similar warnings were addressed to the population of South Beirut.
See www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism.
81
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, see note 20 above, principle 6, restating ICCPR
article 12, and customary international humanitarian law (see ICRC Study, note 21 above,
pp. 74-76, 457-468 (Rules 24 and 129-131).
82
ICRC Study, see note 21 above, pp. 62-65 (Rule 20). The duty to warn as part of the duty to
protect life may also be derived from ICCPR article 6.
83
Human Rights Watch, op. cit., pp. 35-40.
84
In relation to maternal health, see CESCR general comment No. 14 (2000), para. 14.
85
“On the first day our missiles were focused on shelling military sites only, excluding Israeli
settlements and colonies in north occupied Palestine. Yet, the enemy army, unable to confront
our warriors, started from the first day targeting towns, villages, civilians, civilian installations
and infrastructure.”
86
“[O]ur battle is against the military, even though we consider everyone in ‘Israel’ partner in
their crime, but so long as there was no need to attack civil targets, we will not.” Speech by
HassanNasrallah, 16 July 2006,
http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=87647&st=25. The rules of humanitarian
law already reflect the requirements of military necessity; there is no “necessity” exception to
these rules. The targeting of civilians not directly participating in hostilities is, without
exception, a violation of international humanitarian law.
87
“[W]ith the Zionists carelessly exceeding the proper limits of engagement, their inability to
read current events has pushed them to continue their extensive assaults of South Lebanon and
Bakaa, especially the cities of Baalbek and Hermel, and to take the choice of hitting the newly
built infrastructure.
“Today we were left with no choice but to deliver on the promise of shelling the city of
Haifa. We know the importance and the gravity of this city. Had we aimed missiles at the
chemical plants, a major disaster would have struck that region, but we deliberately spared these
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