• HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Non combatant doesn’t just mean not running around with a rifle shooting things - its ability and conduct.

    If im planning an attack, then walk into a hospital im still a combatants - I become a non combatant when I stop, surrender or am no longer capable of engaging due to my ability… out of the fight so to speak. You don’t magically become impervious when you walk (or wheeled) in the door then vulnerable when you walk out.

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      9 months ago

      He was in hospital because shrapnel had severed his spine. In the west bank. You can throw semantics at it, but going by the context I’d put money on him not being actively engaged in combat as he was incapable by your words

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        9 months ago

        I think the best way to explain it is take the example to the extreme end - would bin laden have been capable of planning the 9/11 attacks from a hospital bed while not able to walk?

        Law and precident are literally semantics - the difference between a war crime with the penalty of death and a frowny face is literally the details.

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          9 months ago

          So then literally no one is protected then. According to you anyone could be a terrorist committing thought crime.

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            9 months ago

            Feel like I’m talking with people trying to find a reason to be offended. Take 5 seconds

            Is every protected person

            • a known member of a terrorist organization

            • been wounded conducting what are considered terrorist actions

            • in proximity to two other terrorists

            • before considering what other information may be held by IDF.