Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
With the recent wave of unrest in the Israeli occupied territories,' Israel has been faced once again with difficult choices in the methods it uses to restore order within these territories. Israel has responded with methods previously employed to restore order-deportations, preventive detentions, and curfews-and with a new policy of "Force, Power and Blows." With these methods have come vague references in the media to the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War to the occupied territories.' Since there are disagreements both over the general applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to the Israeli occupied territories and over the legality of specific security measures, however, these media references are misleading.
This recent development provides a cursory outline of the debate over the application of the Fourth Geneva Convention to the Israeli occupied zones and the security measures employed within. It first examines Israeli claims that the Fourth Geneva Convention does not apply to the occupied territories as well as arguments that it does. Second, this recent development examines the legality of the Israeli security measures under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Recommended Citation
Morgan, Peter J. III, "Recent Israeli Security Measures under the Fourth Geneva Convention" (1988). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 57.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/57
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