Brilliant Strategy or Deadly Crime: Does Sabotaging an Enemy's Pagers and Walkie Talkies to Explode Violate the Geneva Conventions?

• In Event: Human Rights, Repression, Civilian Victimization, and Political Violence I

Brief Overview

Did exploding pagers & walkie talkies used by Hezbollah violate international law, humanitarian the laws of war, including but not limited to the Geneva Conventions? I conclude that Israel did not violate the law by booby trapping the devices.

Author

• Sarah Whalen, University of Miami