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Civilian Pawns CIVILIAN PAWNS Laws of War Violations and the Use of Weapons on the Israel-Lebanon Border Human Rights Watch Arms Project Human Rights Watch/Middle East Human Rights Watch New York AAA Washington AAA London AAA Brussels Copyright 8 May 1996 by Human Rights Watch. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-76298 ISBN 1-56432-167-3 Cover photograph: Civilians in the remnants of their home, Jibshit, Lebanon, October 1993. Human Rights Watch Arms Project The Arms Project was established in 1992 to monitor and prevent arms transfers to governments or organizations that commit gross violations of internationally recognized human rights and the rules of war and promote freedom of information regarding arms transfers worldwide. Joost R. Hiltermann is the director; Stephen D. Goose is the program director; Ann Peters is the research associate; Kathleen A. Bleakley and Ernst Jan Hogendoorn are research assistants; William M. Arkin is a consultant; and Selamawit Demeke is the associate. Human Rights Watch/Middle East Human Rights Watch/Middle East was established in 1989 to monitor and promote the observance of internationally recognized human rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Christopher George is the executive director; Eric Goldstein is the research director; Joe Stork is the advocacy director; Virginia N. Sherry is associate director; Fatemeh Ziai is counsel; Elahé Hicks is a consultant; Shira Robinson and Awali Samara are associates. Gary Sick is the chair of the advisory committee and Lisa Anderson and Bruce Rabb are vice chairs. 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We address the human rights practices of governments of all political stripes, of all geopolitical alignments, and of all ethnic and religious persuasions. Human Rights Watch defends freedom of thought and expression, due process and equal protection of the law, and a vigorous civil society; we document and denounce murders, disappearances, torture, arbitrary imprisonment, discrimination, and other abuses of internationally recognized human rights. Our goal is to hold governments accountable if they transgress the rights of their people. Human Rights Watch began in 1978 with the founding of its Helsinki division. Today, it includes five divisions covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, as well as the signatories of the Helsinki accords. It also includes five collaborative projects on arms transfers, children=s rights, free expression, prison conditions, and women=s rights. It maintains offices in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, London, Brussels, Moscow, Dushanbe, Rio de Janeiro, and Hong Kong. Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly. The staff includes Kenneth Roth, executive director; Cynthia Brown, program director; Holly J. Burkhalter, advocacy director; Barbara Guglielmo, finance and administration director; Robert Kimzey, publications director; Jeri Laber, special advisor; Gara LaMarche, associate director; Lotte Leicht, Brussels office director; Juan Méndez, general counsel; Susan Osnos, communications director; Jemera Rone, counsel; and Joanna Weschler, United Nations representative. The regional directors of Human Rights Watch are Peter Takirambudde, Africa; José Miguel Vivanco, Americas; Sidney Jones, Asia; Holly Cartner, Helsinki; and Christopher E. George, Middle East. The project directors are Joost R. Hiltermann, Arms Project; Lois Whitman, Children=s Rights Project; Gara LaMarche, Free Expression Project; and Dorothy Q. Thomas, Women=s Rights Project. The members of the board of directors are Robert L. Bernstein, chair; Adrian W. DeWind, vice chair; Roland Algrant, Lisa Anderson, Alice L. Brown, William Carmichael, Dorothy Cullman, Gina Despres, Irene Diamond, Edith Everett, Jonathan Fanton, James C. Goodale, Jack Greenberg, Vartan Gregorian, Alice H. Henkin, Stephen L. Kass, Marina Pinto Kaufman, Bruce Klatsky, Harold Hongju Koh, Alexander MacGregor, Josh Mailman, Andrew Nathan, Jane Olson, Peter Osnos, Kathleen Peratis, Bruce Rabb, Sigrid Rausing, Orville Schell, Sid Sheinberg, Gary G. Sick, Malcolm Smith, Nahid Toubia, Maureen White, and Rosalind C. Whitehead. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ..................................................................................vii I. SUMMARY ......................................................................................................1 RECOMMENDATIONS .....................................................................24 II. BACKGROUND TO THE CONFLICT........................................................29 III. THE JULY 1993 UNDERSTANDINGS .....................................................38 IV. RECENT VIOLATIONS OF HUMANITARIAN LAW .............................48 Operation Grapes of Wrath ..................................................................58 V. OPERATION ACCOUNTABILITY / THE SEVEN-DAY WAR................68 Escalation.............................................................................................69 Operation Accountability Unfolds........................................................72 The Strategy Behind Operation Accountability....................................74 Driving the Population North.................................................75 Civilian Casualties .................................................................83 Ineffective Warnings..............................................................91 Blocking Access to Medical Care and Emergency Relief......98 Physical Damage..................................................................102 Hizballah Rocket Attacks...................................................................106 Aftermath of Operation Accountability..............................................111 VI. QUESTIONS ABOUT SOME OF THE WEAPONS USED IN THE CONFLICT...............................................................117 Phosphorus.........................................................................................118 Flechettes............................................................................................127 VII. WEAPONS TRANSFERS AND THE CONFLICT IN SOUTHERN LEBANON .............................................................133 Arms to Israel.....................................................................................133 Arms to Hizballah .............................................................................140 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report is jointly prepared by the Human Rights Watch Arms Project and Human Rights Watch/Middle East. It is based on three separate research missions. Joost R. Hiltermann, the director of the Arms Project, investigated laws of war violations committed during Operation Accountability during research in Lebanon in October 1993. He was assisted by Monette Zard, a research consultant for Human Rights Watch, and Ali Srour. Stephen Goose, program director of the Arms Project, and Eric Goldstein, research director of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, jointly conducted a parallel investigation into Hizballah violations in Israel in November 1993. Virginia N. Sherry, associate director of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, investigated laws of war violations in southern Lebanon in August 1995. She was assisted by Jamal Mahroum and Ali Srour. Elizabeth Wilcox, an intern at Human Rights Watch/Middle East, did research on Operation Accountability in preparation of the two field missions in fall 1993. Joost Hiltermann, the principal author of the report, is responsible for writing the summary and conclusions (chapter 1), the background section (chapter 2), most of chapter 5 on Operation Accountability, and the section on the use of phosphorus in chapter 6. Monette Zard wrote early versions of chapter 3 on the July 1993 Aunderstandings@ and chapter 4 on recent violations of international humanitarian law; provided input on chapter 5; and also helped with legal analysis throughout the report. Stephen Goose wrote the section on Hizballah violations in chapter 5, as well as chapter 7 on weapons transfers, with input from Kathleen Bleakley, research assistant at the Arms Project. Ernst Jan Hogendoorn, research assistant at the Arms Project, provided research, writing and editorial assistance, and wrote the section on flechettes in chapter 6. Joe Stork, advocacy director of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, provided writing and editorial input. The report was edited by Joost Hiltermann and reviewed by
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