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53. Who identified them as police, and on what grounds?

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #52)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:57 PM

Nov 2024

And what does “local police” mean anyway? What local authorities designated or employed them as police, and what identifying insignia were produced to IDF before they started shooting?

Absent the visible insignia, the Geneva Conventions do not classify armed men as police. The Geneva Conventions consider them enemy combatants.

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