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Hamas, Gaza, and the Terrorist’s Code of Ethics

By Yitzhak Benbaji and Alexander Yakobsen

Let’s set aside the question of whether Hamas’ decision to fight Israel this summer was legitimate, and ask a separate question: Did Hamas have the option of using legitimate combat methods?

Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace

Yitzhak Benbaji and Alexander Yakobsen

Both authors are research fellows at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Yitzhak Benbaji teaches at Tel Aviv University’s law school and is an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Centre. Alexander Yakobson teaches in Hebrew University’s history department.‬

Entries written by Yitzhak Benbaji and Alexander Yakobsen

Hamas, Gaza, and the Terrorist’s Code of Ethics