Patients with kidney failure need regular dialysis treatments to survive. However, the equipment, supplies and medical staff needed for dialysis have been largely destroyed by the assault on Gaza.
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Just-war theory insists that civilians are not legitimate targets. However, civilian immunity does not provide blanket protection from harm.
Proportionality requires that lives of civilians on both sides of a conflict must be treated with the same degree of respect.
The hospital blast site has largely been cleared, Hamas says. But a forensic scientist explains what other evidence independent experts could look to while conducting an investigation.
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