Civilian loss of the right to be protected from direct attacks

Abstract

AbstractOne of the most major targets and the core of international humanitarian law is to protect civilians in armed conflict, under the rules of law have the personnel and the civilian population the general protection of the implications of combat operations carried out by the armies and to achieve the protection required by law to combatants discrimination for the duration of the conflict between civilians and combatants, and directed operations against the military targets only, and increased attention to the protection of civilians in recent times as a result of the evolution of the great fighting styles and the emergence of advanced technology and destroyed in the fighting and has faced international law, humanitarian operations increased for the participation of civilians in hostilities, especially in the wars of national liberation Tpinha Additional Protocol I and increase the ICRC's concern of the Red Cross as a result of the expansion of civil wars (non-international conflicts), and as a result had to be addressed by international humanitarian law for the participation of civilians in hostilities because such participation represents an exception is the origin of non-participating because the latter case is giving rise to the protection and came addressed through the identification of key base in the Protocols, which states (enjoy the protection of civilians from direct attack unless they take a direct part in hostilities and over time as they take a direct part in hostilities).