.THE ISRAEL PROTECTION TROOP (IDF) are getting ready for an offensive against the city of Rafah, in the most southern recommendation of Gaza. It is the last redoubt of Hamas-- yet is actually also home to some 1.5 m displaced Palestinians. Worrying an altruistic catastrophe, even Israel's closest ally, America, has advised versus military procedures certainly there. Yet Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, asserts that the IDF will use. He professes to have a planning to secure private citizens. One Israeli official said that the nation was actually getting 40,000 camping tents to get ready for an evacuation. Israel contends that it has actually constantly followed International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in Gaza. Exactly what are its obligations?