In March 2011, as part of a concerted civil society action, the Israeli human rights group Yesh Gvul, represented by attorneys Michael Sfard and Emily Schaeffer, submitted a petition to Israel's High Court of Justice demanding the complete ban of the use of white phosphorus munitions in populated areas by the Israeli military. It was in this context that the office of Michael Sfard asked Forensic Architecture to investigate the behaviour and effects of such weapons. The outcome of our investigation was a report titled The Use of White Phosphorus Munitions in Urban Environments: An Effects-Based Analysis. The report was first presented in the UN Office at Geneva, during the Annual Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (November 12 “16, 2012). It was later submitted to Israel's High Court of Justice, within the framework of Yesh Gvul's petition. With the material in the petition generating a strong adverse public opinion, the Israeli military ”prior to the final hearing of the case in the High Court ”declared on April 25, 2013 that it would stop using white phosphorus munitions in populated areas.