20240627 - news - Smotrich vows new settlement for every unilateral recognition of Palestine

COMMENT

International law considers the weaponization of settlements for political use a war crime, specifically the crime of transferring a power's own civilian population to an occupied territory, as outlined in Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention. This is a grave breach of international humanitarian law, and a war crime because it constitutes an attack on the civilian population and violates the prohibition against attacking civilian objects, as seen in Article 8(2) of the Rome Statute.