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Originally posted by Seree Zohar:
Here´s the relevant language. It comes from Article 37 of Protocol 1, ratified in 1979: "It is prohibited to kill, injure or capture an adversary by resort to perfidy." It lists three types of perfidy; the third is "the feigning of civilian, non-combatant status." And, by hiding in and launching missiles from Qana, Hezbollah was feigning civilian status and therefore resorting to perfidy.
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I'm sorry, if you see a truck of armed men with rocket launcher rattling down the street, do you think they're civilians? No, of course not.
Bombs are designed to kill civilians. Full stop, end of story. If you do not want to kill any civilians, don't use bombs.
Military groups use cities to fight from because they have roads to drive around on and buildings to use for cover. Honorable combat? No, but modern armies gave up on the old idea of "honorable combat" a long time ago. Why do you think we have camouflage?
I can make an arguement that anything other than the leaders of both agrieved groups pistol dueling is "perfidy," but I doubt anyone would sign off on it, least of all the politicians who don't want to get anywhere near the killing themselves.