BBC NEWS | Middle East | Gaza conflict: Who is a civilian?

The bloodied children are clearly civilians; men killed as they launch rockets are undisputedly not. But what about the 40 or so young Hamas police recruits on parade who died in the first wave of Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza? And weapons caches are clearly military sites – but what about the interior ministry, hit in a strike that killed two medical workers; or the money changer's office, de

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ジュネーブ条約を批准してないくせに同条約を持ち出すイスラエル政府の無茶苦茶っぷりったら・・・。

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Jan. 05/'The International Committee of the Red Cross - guardian of the Geneva Conventions on which international humanitarian law is based - defines a combatant as a person "directly engaged in hostilities".'