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Israel’s recent offensive in the Gaza Strip, with its heavy toll on Palestinian civilians, inflamed a long-running debate about how the laws of war can be applied to guerrilla-style fighting.

Far from the split-second decision-making of battle, or the raw recrimination of politicians and pundits, one Israeli think-tank is offering a more leisurely way to gauge your understanding of what constitutes a war crime.

The Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs (JCPA) quiz, accessed on-line, poses 12 multiple-choice questions about various combat scenarios. Some recall the skirmishes with Hamas in Gaza’s slums. Others — an enemy submarine sunk, an African insurrection assessed — don’t.

You get a grade at the end, on the assumption that lacklustre lay jurists might be persuaded to attend the JCPA’s June 18 conference titled: “Hamas, the Gaza War, and Accountability under International Law”.