The position of international humanitarian law on the use of drones during internal armed conflicts

Abstract

: The tremendous technical development in the weapons used in armed conflicts and their destructive effects puts the credibility of international humanitarian law at stake. Many legal concepts must be reconsidered to keep pace with this development. Drones have become today a serious threat to human rights. Targeted killing by these planes is under the pretext of Confronting terrorism, the lack of accuracy necessary to identify targets and confiscation of the principle of military necessity, all this prompted the direction of addressing this issue legally - although it does not meet the ambition - and the intervention of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to condemn and denounce the use of these weapons, and activate the rules of criminal responsibility to prosecute users and compensate those affected.