Since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah and Israel have been engaging in a low-level armed conflict. This conflict has however been intensifying, and further talks about an imminent ground invasion of Lebanon by Israel are on the rise. A previous conflict between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006 had been identified as an International Armed Conflict (IAC) by the UN Commission of enquiry on Lebanon (para. 12). The purpose of this article is to identify whether the current armed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is an IAC or a Non-International Armed Conflict (NIAC). To reach a conclusion, this article will first explore the 2006 UN Commission’s view which considered that the armed conflict between Hezbollah and Israel at that time amounted to an International Armed Conflict (IAC); and second, this article will examine whether the conditions laid down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Tadic case regarding the classification of an IAC are met. read more on link below photo AFP
