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.
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
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.
Well, one of them was in a wheel chair so yeah they assassinated a non combatant in a hospital
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.
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
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.
So then literally no one is protected then. According to you anyone could be a terrorist committing thought crime.
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.