BEIRUT: A report prepared by Lebanon’s National Commission for International Humanitarian Law documenting Israeli violations is being revised almost daily as infringements continue in southern Lebanon and the Lebanese state remains unable to access some of the areas where Israeli forces have advanced.
While the file now contains thousands of pages of reports and documented evidence, that does not mean Lebanon will be able to bring Israel before an international court anytime soon.
At a closed discussion organized by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Beirut, Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri, who oversees the documentation process under the National Commission for International Humanitarian Law, outlined the methods and mechanisms used to collect, verify and document alleged Israeli violations.
Mitri, who chairs the government commission, discussed the stages of the documentation process and the challenges it faced, particularly in recording incidents involving medical personnel, civilians, civilian infrastructure, forced displacement and other alleged violations, which ultimately formed the basis of the commission’s preliminary report.
He said that documenting the violations was also about “preserving the national memory.”
