As a specialized journal in humanitarian law, the International Review of the Red Cross invites submissions of manuscripts on subjects relating to international humanitarian law, policy and action. All academic submissions related to these themes are welcome. This includes as well papers on the territories occupied by Israel, and in particular related to the jurisprudence of the Israeli High Court. The international student's competition on legal aspects of the occupation of Hebron falls within the scope of these criteria, as many other manifestations related to international humanitarian law do in other contexts. No article has been recently published by the International Review on the Israeli and Palestinian context and only one article has dealt with "Judaism and the ethics of war" (by Rabbi Norman Salomon).

As all other articles submitted, the papers on this context have to fulfil several academic criteria. All articles are subjected to a peer-review and the decision whether or not to publish is taken by the editor-in-chief and the international board of editors of the journal. The involvement of the Review in the aforementioned international student's competition is limited to this procedure. Selected articles reflect the view of the authors alone.