What international laws apply as civilians die in Gaza and Israel?

The first rule of just war is to avoid killing innocent people, but thousands of civilians have been killed so far in the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas. What does international law say about the kind of violence we have seen in the past two weeks and what kind of power does the global community have to enforce it? To answer those questions, Gautam Mukunda was joined by former Harvard and Georgetown professor, Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, and Tom Dannenbaum, co-director of the Center for International Law and Governance at Tufts University.

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