Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen
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No, it is not called escalation.
Proportionality is about common sense.
If You detect that there is a single private in uniform attending a football game together with 50,000 civilians, it is a war crime to carpet bomb the arena killing all ofbthem claiming that the presence of that private makes all of the arena a valid military target.
If you detect a single sniper blocking a bridge from a house which might contain civilians, and that bridge is critical to the success of the campaign, then taking out the house is considered proportional even if a few civilians are killed.
Maybe You should ask your countrymen which whines about Israel not being proportional in its response to Palestinian War Crimes. Or maybe you shouldn’t because while they are aware that the rule if proportionality exists they have no clue how it works.
This is now considered customary law and based on various parts of the 1907 Hague convention and the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
Tell that to the Ukrainians who bomb Kherson bridge, Crimean bridge which are mainly used by civilians.