01.07.2007|Articles|Academic        
        
			Case Note: Can We Now Tell What "Direct Participation in Hostilities" is?        
    
    
		The author criticizes the judgment in HCJ 769/02 which determined that the principles of international humanitarian law allow a "preventative strike" against a "terrorist" ("targeted killing"). According to the author, the Justices' final ruling stands in contrast to the rhetoric they used throughout the judgment.