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What international law says about Israel’s collective punishments against Palestinian civilians

By Leonie Fleischmann, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City St George's, University of London

A recent episode on the West Bank when hundreds of Palestinian men were detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has highlighted the IDF’s tactic of “collective punishment”. This is defined as “a form of sanction imposed on persons or a group of persons in response to a crime committed by one of them or a member…

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