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Ce papier décrit la démarche d’Israël dans l’enquête sur les violations présumées du droit des conflits armés. Elle porte en particulier sur les enquêtes, poursuites judiciaires, et les leçons retirées en rapport avec les actions des Forces de défense israéliennes (FDI) à Gaza du 27 Décembre 2008 au 18 Janvier 2009 ( (l ’ « opération de Gaza », est aussi connu comme « Opération Cast Lead » -« Oferet Yetsouka » (Plomb durci) »).

Israel pursued legitimate military objectives in Gaza despite humanitarian cost, study says. Israel did not violate the rules of war during its recent Gaza operation, a new US study says, while praising the IDF’s « impressive improvements » since the war against Hizbullah in 2006. Israel « deliberately used decisive force to enhance regional deterrence and demonstrate that it had restored its military edge, » wrote Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. « These, however, are legitimate military objectives in spite of their very real humanitarian costs. »

Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of the UN agency in Gaza and the West Bank, made a startling admission in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday (10/4) : I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll and I don’t see that as a crime... we do not do political vetting and exclude people from one persuasion as against another.

Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip in August 2005 created a new situation which accelerated the establishment of the area controlled by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It enabled it to translate its increased power on the ground into gains in internal Palestinian politics was well. It won a landslide victory in the January 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council
elections, formed a government in March 2006, and took over the Gaza Strip by force in June
2007, neutralizing Fatah and the Palestinian Authority.