THE ISRAEL SUPREME COURT AND THE LAW OF BELLIGERENT OCCUPATION: DEMOLITIONS AND SEALING OFF OF HOUSES

Israel Yearbook on Human Rights

Volumn 29, Issue , 1999, Pages 285-304

  Dinstein, Yoram ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84917387082     PISSN: 03335925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/9789004423138_017     Document Type: Chapter

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51. This was the factual setting, e.g., in H.C. 434/79, supra note 30;
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