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https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2017/06/téléchargement.jpg1000750We have seen extraordinary suffering in urban wars in the Middle East in recent years. We have heard stories of people in besieged towns in Syria or Yemen, eating grass or garbage to stay alive. We have seen images of towns in Syria that harken back to World War II; cities decimated by airstrikes and...