Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians - Role of International Humanitarian Law in Protecting Civilians.

Abstract

Today’s human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow’s conflicts, as rightly said by Mary Robinson. International humanitarian laws are praised more than ever and violated as much as ever. Ethnic cleansing and genocides, a systematic approach to remove religious groups are no doubt, the most common and severe of the crimes against human beings under the International Humanitarian Law and its failure to safeguard the victims is dreadful which in turn has led to this increased number of genocides we are encountering even in the modern era. The beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the 19th and early 20th century when Zionism was established as a political ideology and continues to have its existence to this very day. This