The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are clearly violating the four Geneva Conventions of humanitarian international law from 1949 with their conduct of warfare in the Gaza Strip.

The first and second Conventions oblige warring parties to protect and care for the wounded and sick, as well as medical personnel, ambulances, and hospitals.

The third Convention establishes rules and treatment for prisoners of war.

The fourth Convention protects civilians in occupied territories.

These four Conventions are supplemented by the Additional Protocols of 1977, which aim to protect populations in non-international armed conflicts and prohibit attacks on them.

Among the known violations so far are killings, deportations, starvation of the civilian population, destruction of the healthcare system, and the humiliation of prisoners of war through their exposure and display.

These actions constitute war crimes.