Rise of ISIS (15 page)

41
. Protocol I, art. 52.

42
. 
See id
., art. 51(4).

43
. Ibid.

44
. Ibid., art. 51(5)(b) (emphasis added).

45
. Karen Yourish and Josh Keller, “The Toll in Gaza and Israel, Day by Day,”
New York Times
, August 8, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/15/world/middleeast/toll-israel-gaza-conflict.html
.

46
. “Hamas Launches Rockets on Civilians in Gaza,” IDF Blog, July 31, 2014,
http://www.idfblog.com/blog/2014/07/31/hamas-launches-rockets-civilians-gaza/
.

47
. Protocol I, art. 51(4)(b).

48
. Steven Emerson, “Hamas Claims Rockets Only Target Jews,”
Algemeiner,
July 28, 2014,
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/28/hamas-claims-rockets-only-target-jews/
.

1
. https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/statement/2014/07-29-gaza-stop-the-killing.htm.

2
. Ian Black, “U.N. Human Rights Body to Investigate Claims of
Israeli Violations in Gaza,”
Guardian,
July 23, 2014,
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2014/jul/23/un-high-commissioner-navi-pillay-war-crimes-israel
.

3
. See Editorial Board, “The U.S. Should Push for the Disarming of Hamas in Gaza-Israel Cease-Fire,”
Washington Post,
July 23, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-should-push-for-the-disarming-of-hamas-in-gaza-israel-cease-fire/2014/07/23/7c2d1d9e-1284-11e4-8936-26932bcfd6ed_story.html
(estimating the cost of each tunnel that Hamas has dug to be roughly one million dollars).

4
. See Elad Benari, “Watch: Hamas Spokesman Encourages Using Civilians as Shields,”
Artuz Sheva,
July 7, 2014,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182729#.U9kmg7Gf-ik
(reporting a video of Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri explicitly encouraging Palestinians to adopt the strategy of becoming human shields and lauding its effectiveness and its display of the brave character of Palestinians).

1
. David French, “First They Came for the Jews,”
Patheos,
February 7, 2011.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Elliott Abrams, “Yasser Arafat International Airport,” Council on Foreign Relations, August 8, 2014.

4
. Dexter Filkins, “What We Left Behind,”
New Yorker,
April 28, 2014.

5
. Rosie Gray, “Obama Authorizes Strikes Against Islamic State Fighters in Iraq,”
BuzzFeed,
August 7, 2014.

6
. Bing West,
The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq
(New York: Random House, 2009).

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