Teachers are unable to reach schools located outside their own towns or villages. High school and university students miss school days. The roads have become dangerous because of acts of violence from both sides. The military and policing steps must be adapted to the circumstances. The high number and continuing casualties indicate a dramatic escalation in the use of force by the IDF towards the civilian Palestinian population.
Assassinations are absolutely forbidden.
If it is necessary from a military or police aspect to take someone prisoner, it is only permitted to arrest him. It is clear that some of the reasons of violence cannot be explained or justified as a military necessity, for example a person killed in his bed, at the entrance to his home, in his field or car. Already in the second month of the Intifada, last November, the Red Cross determined that the presence of the Israeli settlements in the territories was impacting harshly on the general Palestinian population and is contrary to the fourth Geneva Conference. Human rights organizations and international media, on the other hand, have accused the IDF of committing war crimes. The settlements and the settlers are a political problem that the Israeli authorities are trying to solve by using military means, they say.