"This week, the U.N. Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict released its report concluding that both Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) committed violations of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) during the Gaza conflict (what the IDF designated as Operation Protective Edge). Unfortunately, the condemnations directed against the IDF lack credibility, are often based on erroneous interpretations of the LOAC, and reflect an overall lack of competence in the relationship between the LOAC and military operations...
[I]t is remarkable that in a report spanning 183 pages, approximately 15 pages are devoted to analysis of Hamas's LOAC violations, with the vast majority of the remainder of the Report devoted to a critique of IDF operations. This reflects a disparity in focus, but also a perplexing inverse relationship between the blatant nature of Hamas's LOAC violations and the extent of analysis and critique..."