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It's not only Israel, international law is being tested in Gaza Strip

Israeli troops continuing ground operations in the Gaza Strip. [Xinhua]

A harsh principle of the law of armed conflict is that even when one side of a conflict violates and disdains the law, the other is still bound to uphold it.

Anyone who has heard the testimony of the survivors of the Hamas' massacre of October 7 or seen the gruesome body camera recordings of murder, torture and mutilation filmed by the exhilarated terrorists themselves, will be hard pressed to think of a war crime or crime against humanity that Hamas did not commit.

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