Protection of civilians and accountability mechanisms for violations of international humanitarian law.

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Faculty of Law - Mansoura University

Abstract

God's law and the penalties it stipulates came in order to preserve human rights and dignity, and God made it a major sin to kill oneself unjustly, as well as the laws prevailing in our current world, which were set by man to organize his life with the people around him and walk on them, have come to preserve man's right to life, and protect him from crimes committed by criminals against other human beings. Man in times of armed conflict as a human being regardless of nationality or religious, ethnic or linguistic affiliation. It also seeks to achieve the goal for which it came, which is an attempt to alleviate the scourge of wars and tame the behavior of combatants in them and armed conflicts in both their international and non-international aspects, by subjecting wars and other conflicts in which weapons are used, whether they exist between two or more States or within the scope of a non-international armed conflict, to a set of legal rules aimed primarily at alleviating the suffering and pain caused by those wars and conflicts of all kinds, and verifying the effects in the event of They occur regardless of the legitimacy or illegality of the armed conflict.

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