مبدأ الهدف العسكري في القانون الدولي الإنساني

Abstract

The international community recognized legal rules to prevent targeting civil objectives, such rules represent some principles contained in international conventions, especially the principle of military objective in an attempt to provide protection to civilians and civil objectives. However, the line between civil and military targets is not always clear. On one side, one of the parties to the conflict often resort to use civil property to serve its military objectives, especially for objects that are of the double nature or double use, which arise some questions of the legality of such targeting. On the other side, the conflicts are no longer limited to states only or to those that take place in the internal affairs, but joined other parties which are not states, such as terrorist organizations, the various armed groups across the borders that threaten national, regional or global security and stability which called Transboundary conflicts with non-state actors, which also raises some questions in targeting such groups, and whether the standards or recognized principles of international humanitarian law in targeting for the traditional kinds of conflicts are applied in these new kinds of conflicts.