{"id":74750,"date":"2026-06-11T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/military-strikes-on-water-facilities-in-iran-may-constitute-a-war-crime-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:55:47","slug":"military-strikes-on-water-facilities-in-iran-may-constitute-a-war-crime-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/military-strikes-on-water-facilities-in-iran-may-constitute-a-war-crime-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Military strikes on water facilities in Iran may constitute a war crime, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/jun\/11\/iran-war-news-us-strikes-donald-trump-stalled-peace-talks-middle-east-crisis\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Military strikes that damaged two water storage facilities in southern Iran may constitute a war crime, military and legal experts say, after reviewing media reports and visual evidence of a 10 June strike on Bemani, a small district about 2 miles from the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if the strikes deliberately targeted the district\u2019s water tanks, or if they unintentionally destroyed a key reservoir for about 20,000 people living nearby. But if the tanks were the target, then the legal question becomes critical, Brian Finucane, a former state department lawyer, said. \u201cIt\u2019s either a military objective or it\u2019s a civilian object: attacking one is lawful, attacking the other is a war crime,\u201d Finucane said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/11\/strikes-water-facilities-iran-war-crime-experts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Military strikes that damaged two water storage facilities in southern Iran may constitute a war crime, military and legal experts say, after reviewing media reports and visual evidence of &#8230; <a title=\"Military strikes on water facilities in Iran may constitute a war crime, experts say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/military-strikes-on-water-facilities-in-iran-may-constitute-a-war-crime-experts-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Military strikes on water facilities in Iran may constitute a war crime, experts say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}