Selection of the main international law instruments applicable to the situation in the Middle East and Palestine:

International Humanitarian Law (IHL)

• Geneva Conventions (1949) – compilation FR (ICRC)
  https://www.icrc.org/sites/default/files/external/doc/fr/assets/files/other/icrc_001_0173.pdf
• Fourth Geneva Convention (civilians) – text FR (alternative)
  https://www.humanium.org/fr/wp-content/uploads/convention-de-geneve-4.pdf
• Additional Protocol I (1977) – text FR (UN)
  https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201125/volume-1125-I-17512-French.pdf
• Additional Protocol II (1977) – text FR (ICRC)
  https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/assets/treaties/475-PA-II-FR.pdf
• Hague Regulations (1907) – text FR (ICRC)
  https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/assets/treaties/195-DIH-19-FR.pdf

International Human Rights Law (UN)

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
  https://www.eods.eu/library/UN_ICCPR_1966_FR.pdf
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
  https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20993/volume-993-i-14531-french.pdf
• International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
  https://www.eods.eu/library/UN_International%20Convention%20on%20the%20Elimination%20of%20Racial%20Discrimination_1966_FR.pdf
• Convention against Torture (CAT)
  https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201465/volume-1465-I-24841-french.pdf
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
  https://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/cedaw25years/content/french/Convention-CEDAW-French.pdf

Customary International Law (Customary IHL)

• ICRC database (rules + practice). https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/fr/customary-ihl/v1

Children’s Rights

• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) – text FR (Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs)
  https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Conv_Droit_Enfant.pdf
• Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict (2000) – text FR (Switzerland)
  https://www.bsv.admin.ch/dam/bsv/fr/dokumente/kinder/studien/1._Fakultativprotokoll_bewaffnete_Konflikte.pdf.download.pdf/1._Fakultativprotokoll_bewaffnete_Konflikte.pdf

Genocide, ICC, UN Charter

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)
  https://www.ohchr.org/fr/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide
• Charter of the United Nations (official FR page)
  https://www.un.org/fr/about-us/un-charter
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court – text FR (UN)
  https://legal.un.org/icc/statute/french/rome_statute(f).pdf
• ICC – Situation in the State of Palestine (FR page)
  https://www.icc-cpi.int/fr/palestine

ICJ – Orders (South Africa v. Israel, 2024)

• Order of 26 January 2024 (provisional measures) – PDF FR
  https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/192-20240126-ord-01-00-fr.pdf
• Order of 24 May 2024 (additional measures) – PDF FR
  https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/192-20240524-ord-01-00-fr.pdf
• Case file (overview FR)
  https://www.icj-cij.org/fr/affaire/192

Security Council Resolutions (selection)

• S/RES/242 (1967) – text FR (UN Digital Library)
  https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/90717?ln=fr
• S/RES/338 (1973) – text FR
  https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/93466?ln=fr
• S/RES/446 (1979) – text FR
  https://docs.un.org/S/Res/446(1979)
• S/RES/478 (1980) – select “French”
  https://docs.un.org/s/res/478(1980)
• S/RES/1860 (2009) – text FR
  https://docs.un.org/S/RES/1860%20(2009)
• S/RES/2712 (2023) – text FR
  https://docs.un.org/S/RES/2712(2023)
• S/RES/2720 (2023) – text FR
  https://docs.un.org/S/Res/2720(2023)
• S/RES/2728 (2024) – text FR
  https://docs.un.org/s/res/2728%20(2024)

General Assembly Resolutions (selection)

• A/RES/181 (II) – Partition Plan (1947) – PDF FR
  https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ARES181II.pdf
• A/RES/194 (III) – Refugees and Conciliation (1948) – PDF FR
  https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ARES194III.pdf
• A/RES/67/19 – Status of Palestine at the UN (2012) – PDF FR
  https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/739031?ln=fr

Refugees (relevant for displaced Palestinians)

• 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees – text FR (UNHCR/Belgium)
  https://www.cgra.be/sites/default/files/content/download/files/convention_de_geneve.pdf
• 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees – text FR (CNDA)
  https://www.cnda.fr/Media/mediatheque-cnda/documents/les-textes-du-droit-d-asile/d-2-protocole-de-new-york-1967

Other useful instruments

• International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (1973) – text FR (UN)
  https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201015/volume-1015-I-14861-French.pdf
• Arms Trade Treaty (2013) – text FR (ATT Secretariat)
  https://thearmstradetreaty.org/hyper-images/file/Traitesurlecommercedesarmes/Traitesurlecommercedesarmes.pdf