{"id":316124,"date":"2026-03-01T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316124\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:11:09","slug":"turk-condemns-israel-and-us-strikes-on-iran-and-subsequent-retaliation-jurist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316124\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrk condemns Israel and US strikes on Iran and subsequent retaliation – JURIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk on Saturday condemned<\/a> Israeli and US strikes across Iran and Iran\u2019s subsequent retaliatory attacks, warning that the escalation risks a wider regional conflict and reiterating that international law requires the protection of civilians and accountability for violations.<\/p>\n

In a statement delivered in Geneva, T\u00fcrk said he \u201cdeplore[d] the military strikes across Iran this morning by Israel and the United States of America, and the subsequent retaliatory strikes by Iran,\u201d adding that \u201cin any armed conflict, it is civilians who end up paying the ultimate price.\u201d T\u00fcrk urged restraint and called on parties to \u201cde-escalate\u201d and return to the \u201cnegotiating table,\u201d warning that failure to do so could lead to \u201cfurther senseless civilian deaths and destruction on a potentially unimaginable scale\u201d across the Middle East.<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrk reminded \u201call parties that international law with respect to armed conflict is very clear: the protection of civilians is paramount,\u201d and he stated that \u201c[v]iolations of them must lead to accountability for those responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel framed<\/a> the operation as a \u201cpreemptive\u201d strike, carried out with US involvement, prompting heightened regional security measures and airspace closures as retaliation threats followed.<\/p>\n

From an international-law perspective, the escalation implicates two distinct legal frameworks that operate concurrently. First, the UN Charter\u2019s jus ad bellum rules<\/a> govern the legality of resorting to force, prohibiting the use of force against another state absent a recognized exception such as UN Security Council authorization or self-defense. Second, once an armed conflict exists, international humanitarian law (IHL) regulates<\/a> how force may be used, regardless of the parties\u2019 competing claims about the legality of the initial resort to force. T\u00fcrk\u2019s emphasis on civilian protection and accountability aligns with the second framework and underscores that compliance obligations apply to all parties to the conflict, including during retaliatory operations.<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrk\u2019s call for \u201caccountability\u201d can encompass multiple avenues, including domestic investigations and prosecutions under military or civilian systems, state responsibility claims for internationally wrongful acts, and international criminal or other international accountability mechanisms. T\u00fcrk did not specify a forum, but his framing anticipates intensified scrutiny of targeting practices and civilian-harm mitigation measures under the core IHL principles of distinction, proportionality, and precautions in attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk on Saturday condemned Israeli and US strikes across Iran and Iran\u2019s subsequent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-316124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}