International Humanitarian Law and the Gray area

Abstract

International humanitarian law is one of the branches of public international law, which aims to alleviate suffering on the battlefield by protecting people during war and protecting places not related to hostilities. The concept of conflict in gray areas focuses on the space between war and peace that arises when actors employ multiple tools to achieve political and security goals through activities that are ambiguous, and that go beyond the limits of traditional competition, but they are located in an area below the level of full military conflict, and ambiguity still surrounds the nature of the conflict, The international legal system applicable to armed conflicts, especially with regard to their legal qualification.