The Israel-Gaza conflict is not new to the region and the world at large. It was a continuing historical conflict between Israel and Palestine since 1947 that directly centre the ownership of the land and the way both parties treating and considering the other. The conflict in 2014 was the consequences of the antecedent conflict of 2012. This conflict become the area of interest not only due to the level of atrocities occurred but also one of the recent conflicts widely covered by the media. Such allow it to be widely expose the frequently cover up event during similar conflict in the 2014 conflict. As a result, it led Israel and Hamas to admit that they breached the armistice of November 2012. The consequences of the war recorded 2,200 Palestine dead, mostly civilians and 490 of them are children, while up to 500,000 people were displaced by the conflict. On the Israel side, 64 soldiers and six civilians’ dead include a four-year-old boy. The paper is investigating on whether the principles of the conduct of hostilities has been complied with by the parties to the Israel-Gaza conflict 2014, the precaution steps of warfare taken during the conflict, and the implication of the conflict to the protected people under the International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The authors embarked on the following materials for completion of the paper; book, journals, reports from NGOs, other humanitarian agencies, and report of the Journalists in the process of concluding this research. As a result, the finding and recommendation is expected to be provided in handling future crises.
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To Cite this Article: Ahmad, A. A., Mohamed, A. M. H. Bin, Nasir, S. M. B. Y. @ M., Talib, A. B., & Nor, N. S. B. M. (2019). The Israel-Gaza Crises of 2014: The Conduct of Hostility and Its Effect on Protected People. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(12), 514–532.
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