Must read: “Targeting in an Urban Environment: Why Weaponeering and Tactics Matter” @WestPoint_USMA @jimsciutto For any politician or media commenting on Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. “the assessment of whether a weapon was used lawfully is almost always a contextual determination…proportionality “is assessed based upon the information reasonably available to the attacker at the time the attack was planned, approved, or executed. It is not determined by the collateral damage or military advantage that actually resulted; the assessment is ex ante rather than post factum.” Therefore, extensive civilian casualties alone, while informative, cannot establish a violation of the rule without considering the information reasonably available to the attacker at the time of the attack.” https://lieber.westpoint.edu/targeting-urban-environment-why-weaponeering-tactics-matter/
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