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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
I'm not familiar with the Geneva ccords you are citing, but if I remember Geneva accords were to protect military personal(sp); the status afforded under Geneva doesn't apply to citizens,
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wrong.
* First Geneva Convention (1864): Treatment of battlefield casualties.
* Second Geneva Convention (1906): Extended the principles from the first convention to apply also to war at sea.
* Third Geneva Convention (1929): Treatment of prisoners of war.
* Fourth Geneva Convention (1949): Treatment of civilians during wartime in enemy hands.
Israel violates, for example, Article 49. of the 4th Convention
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The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
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