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Trump Violates Humanitarian Law: the Bombing of a Water Facility in Iran

International Humanitarian Law prohibits the attack, destruction, or rendering useless of objects indispensable to civilian survival. During what has been described as tit-for-tat attacks, on June 10, the US bombed the drinking water supply in the Bemani district of Sirik, Hormozgan province, Iran. The 500-cubic-meter tank and a 2,000-cubic-meter reservoir provided water for 20,000 Iranians. …