Israeli forces in armoured vehicles stop a Palestinian ambulance for a search as they block a road during a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. AFP
A spokesperson for the Swiss foreign ministry said that the 196 signatories to the Geneva Convention will be invited to the meeting, which ambassadors will attend.
On September 18, the UN General Assembly mandated Switzerland to organise the conference, given that the Alpine country is the depository of the international treaties setting out the rules of war and humanitarian law.
Such "conferences of high contracting parties" cannot take binding decisions but can "reaffirm the rules of international humanitarian law and the obligations," the Swiss government says on its website.
The Swiss-hosted conference will be held three days after an emergency Arab Summit in Cairo on 4 March to discuss Arab support for Gaza and the Palestinian cause.
Since the UN vote and after 15 months of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed upon and has been in effect since 19 January.
The ceasefire allowed for the exchange of Israeli captives for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and for humanitarian aid to reach the besieged enclave, where 90 percent of housing has been destroyed by Israeli bombardment.
However, in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army has launched a major security operation that killed and wounded dozens of Palestinians and displaced some 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army added tens of new checkpoints on roads to limit the movement of 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank and make their lives more unbearable.
In tandem, Israeli settlers, protected by soldiers, have intensified their attacks on Palestinian lives and property.
The United Nations and the Arab League have condemned Israeli settler attacks and the Israeli military crackdown on the population in the occupied West Bank.
In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes have killed nearly 100 Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire, and the Israeli army has blocked the entry of vital necessities to the strip.
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