503 military dead and counting... Over 3000 wounded... Thousands of civilians killed...
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
-- International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1946.
All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state...
-- U.N. Charter (Chapter I, Article 2).
It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as ... drinking water installations and supplies.
-- Geneva Conventions (Additional Protocol I, Article 54).