The Israeli attacks on Gaza continues to have deadly humanitarian impact. The ongoing attacks have strengthened the ...

The third and fourth Geneva Conventions were ratified a few years later, respectively determining protection provided to prisoners of war and civilians in times of war.

Article 18 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states, "Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of ...

The very first Geneva Convention, inspired by the activism of Swiss businessman Henry Dunant and the International Committee for the Relief of Wounded Combatants, was adopted as far back as 1864.

It relied on the arguments of two prominent Israeli jurists, who said that the Fourth Geneva Convention did not apply to the West Bank. That claim gained almost no support from legal experts abroad.

The Fourth Geneva Convention deals primarily with the protection of civilians in occupied territories, rather than during combat itself. One of the most prolific violators of this convention is ...

Israel’s desire to avoid non-combatant injuries is made far more difficult by the Palestinian terrorists. By storing munitions in hospitals and firing from schools, Hamas transforms those locations ...

The concept of a ‘belligerent occupation’ does not apply here. What country owned the territory that Israel ‘occupied’? Not Jordan, which was there illegally, nor Britain, whose Mandate ...

BANGKOK: Thailand has strongly condemned Cambodia's "indiscriminate" attacks on civilians, civilian infrastructure, and ...

What he'd like to see is an equivalent to the Fourth Geneva Convention in 1949, in which nations agreed on protections for civilians in time of war.