"In a letter addressed to Brad Cooper, head of the US military's Central Command (CENTCOM), 12 legislators said mass displacement orders likely contravene international laws the United States has helped develop around humane warfare. The letter sent on Monday and made public on Thursday largely focused on Israel's conduct in Lebanon, where the Israeli military is systematically turning border towns that it has depopulated into rubble."
"The declaration of military evacuation zones has been used to permanently displace people and destroy homes and towns acts that are in violation of international law, the legislators wrote. Furthermore, no declaration of evacuation zones or kill zones' absolves Israeli and US forces from the absolute legal responsibility to determine that each individual person or civilian facility targeted by drones, jets, and gunfire is, in fact, a military target."
"Throughout its genocidal war on Gaza, Israel used displacement orders to depopulate large areas of the territory, and then blew up nearly every structure in the evacuated area. Critics have said the tactic amounts to ethnic cleansing. Israeli officials have publicly admitted that they aim to re-create the same model in South Lebanon, creating a desolate, uninhabitable no-man's land that would serve as a bu"
Twelve US senators raised concerns about a possible US military role in establishing large evacuation zones in Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran. They said mass displacement orders likely conflict with international laws on humane warfare that the United States helped develop. The letter focused on Israel’s conduct in Lebanon, where border towns have been depopulated and turned into rubble. The senators argued that declaring evacuation zones has been used to permanently displace people and destroy homes and towns, violating international law. They also stated that evacuation or “kill zones” do not remove legal responsibility to verify that each targeted person or civilian facility is a military target. The senators cited Israel’s displacement tactics in Gaza and said critics view them as ethnic cleansing.
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