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"There were days when we fired only into built-up areas, inside Gaza City itself."
Article 51 of the Geneva Conventions' Additional Protocol I states that:
Indiscriminate attacks are those that are "of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians and civilian objects without distinction."
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross' Customary International Humanitarian Law, Rule 12, indiscriminate attacks are those which:
-- are not directed against a specific military target;
-- employ a method or means of combat that cannot be directed at a specific military objective; or
-- employ a combat method or means that can't be limited as international humanitarian law requires.
According to Additional Protocol I:
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