The Union of Administrative Law Judges (NJJ), in light of the recent attacks in Iran and Lebanon, “expresses its deepest concern about the dangerous escalation of war in the Middle East as well as the vicious cycle of violations of international law that extends to our neighbourhood, with the real victims being the peoples of all countries involved.”

At the same time, the ECHR in a statement stressed that “the fundamental principles of the sovereign equality of states, the prohibition of the threat or use of force against their territorial integrity and political independence, and the principle of self-determination of peoples, as enshrined in the United Nations Charter, cannot be allowed to be bent under the weight of any pretext.”

Furthermore, the Administrative Judges, they note that “the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, in particular the distinction between military objectives and civilians, precaution in the conduct of military operations and proportionality, which have been established for the protection of the civilian population, must be strictly observed. Humanity has bitter experience of the horrors of the Second World War, after the end of which these principles were, for the most part, formulated.”

The EDPS does not fail to call on “the international community to take immediate initiatives to de-escalate tensions, protect civilians and prevent further humanitarian catastrophe, and for every human being not to accept as normality the barbarity shaped in our time by the global economic competitions for the sharing of the planet.”