Deadly Metal Rain: The Legality of Flechette Weapons in International Law - A Reappraisal Following Israel's Use of Flechettes in the Gaza Strip (2001-2009)

Taking the April 2003 rejection by Israel's Supreme Court of a petition to ban flechette use rounds in the densely populated Gaza Strip as its starting point, this interdisciplinary book provides one of the most comprehensive explorations of the distinction between legal and illegal conventional weapons available. The book's first part reviews flechette weapon development and use during the Vietnam War, together with consequent efforts to ban them. The second part is devoted to the Israeli case: the use in Lebanon, Gaza Strip and the resulted legal affair. The third and the main part of the book dissects the prolonged debate over flechette banning while resting on ample legal and military-medical literature and. The analysis and integration, for the first time, of new documents from various fields such as Israeli post mortem reports, make no doubts on its novelty and important usefulness.

Product details

• Authors: Eitan Barak
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2011
• EAN: 9789004167193
• ISBN: 978-90-04-16719-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 246 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 603 g
• Series: International Humanitarian Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law