A double tap is the practice of following a strike (be it bombardment such missile, air strikes, artillery shelling, or detonation of explosive weapon or improvised explosive device) with a second strike several minutes later, hitting emergency responders and medical personnel rushing to the site. [1] [2] [3] [4] A Florida Law Review article argued that the practice likely is a war crime since it grossly violates the Geneva Conventions of 1949, which prohibit targeting civilians, the wounded, and those no longer able to continue fighting. [5]
The double-tap strikes became the subject of debate during the US war in Afghanistan. [6] [ why? ] Double-tap strikes have been used by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen, [7] [8] by the United States in Pakistan and Yemen, [9] [10] [11] by Israel in Gaza in 2014, 2024 and 2025, [12] [13] [14] by Russia and the Syrian government in the Syrian civil war, [15] [16] and by Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War, especially in the full-scale invasion in 2022. [17]
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