Belligerency is the condition of being in fact engaged in war. A nation is deemed a belligerent even when resorting to war in order to withstand or punish an aggressor. A declaration of war is not necessary to create a state of belligerency. In relation to Gaza, a belligerent is an entity that acts in a hostile manner, such as total blockade while the occupation of Gaza has never ended. As a belligerent, the Israeli occupying entity behaves bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, contentious mean having an aggressive or fighting attitude. Belligerent implies being actually at war or engaged in hostilities. The Israelis are a war belligerent as they never have lifted their self-declared stage of war since 1967 thus never have offered nor signed peace with the remaining parties the State Of Palestine and Syria. The law of belligerent occupation (or the law of occupation) |
governs the relationship between the occupying power, on the one hand, and the wholly or partially occupied State and its inhabitants, including refugees and stateless persons, on the other. Gaza is part of the occupied State Of Palestine. In the context of abuse of prisoners, a war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as
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