Professor of Law Emeritus William Banks spoke via video with CBC News on the explosion of pages amongst members of Hezbollah. He spoke about the rules of armed conflict and how they do not apply in this conflict.
“There’s no kind of a road map that tells us who can do what, who can get away with what, where this might end, how an agreement might be reached,” Banks said. “This is, of course, the broader Middle East dilemma that we are all witnessing all the time.”
While he said UN charters or NATO treaties may help regulate conflicts between states, Banks noted they don’t exist between Israel and Iran, or Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and therefore, “the traditional rules of armed conflict simply aren’t going to do us any good. They aren’t going to even apply in a situation like this.”