حظر الأسلحة الحارقة في القانون الدولي الإنساني

Abstract EN

The United Nations convention on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of concerned conventional weapons that may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects, held in Geneva on October 10, 1980, came to confirm the principle of prohibiting the use of means and methods of warfare of a nature to cause excessive harm and unjustified suffering.

the use of incendiary weapons during armed conflicts has raised an international problem, and the effects left by these weapons, especially during the Vietnam war, have caused controversy over their use, but most countries have called for the need to absolutely prohibit their use, so international humanitarian law has prohibited the use of this weapon under the protocol the third annex to the 1980 convention on conventional weapons.

incendiary weapons can be, for example, in the form of flamethrowers, mines for other projectiles, grenades, rockets, shells and other incendiary materials.