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2024-09-19 13:56:28 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 842CBBAD14B803BA50DE9F8CCFE86A1F44D376D6F936A0EF0545BF462034F189
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This is false. Combatants - and, by extension, legitimate targets - are defined within the Geneva Conventions as ‘all organised armed forces, groups and units which are under a command responsible to that Party for the conduct of its subordinates’. https://everycasualty.org/knowledge-base/legitimate-targets-in-an-international-armed-conflict/ https://hhi.harvard.edu/publications/legitimate-targets-attacks-under-international-humanitarian-law
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