Reply #32: OK - Let me try this again. [View All]

[msmcghee]

Without the gratuitous comments.

The video shows a dozen or so Hizbullah fleeing from the IDF and making a getaway in two Red Cross ambulances. (#6 at http://www.standwithus.com/idf_videos.asp )

I think this indisputably shows . .

1) that Hizbullah launches attacks from and seeks refuge in heavily populated civilian areas in S. Lebanon, and

2) that Hizbullah uses ambulances for transportation in order to elude Israeli defenses.

Both of those acts, caught on video footage that would be very difficult to fake, show grave violations of the Geneva Conventions by Hizbullah, and legally, by Lebanon, for permitting them to occur within Lebanese territory.

Re: Use of Red Cross emblems to deceive the enemy, from: http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList92/B40C8F7D886BAB58C1256B66005916C5

Articles 37 and 38 of (Geneva Convention) Protocol I prohibit any improper use of the emblem or of the signs or signals prescribed by the Conventions and the Protocol. The use of recognized emblems, or of the signs and signals prescribed by the Conventions and the Protocol, in order to deceive the enemy is considered as a perfidious act under Article 37, and is classed by Article 85, para. 3 (f) as a grave breach of the Conventions and the Protocol. <14>

That was the topic under discussion that you have avoided addressing now for several posts.