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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by dralley on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @04:33PM (#41572421)
>That is, they were not uniformed soldiers engaged in combat. Hence, they were not legitimate targets. They may not even have touched a gun if they served in Hizbollah's civil administration.

Had precision strikes existed in 1944, nobody would complain if a Nazi office party got hit with a missile just because "they were civil administrators, not soldiers"

Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by tptacek on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @04:38PM (#41572469)
It wouldn't matter. They would have been considered combatants then, and are explicitly designated so under the Geneva Conventions now. Unless you're a medic or a chaplain, you cannot safely work for (or, really, even be "under the effective command of") Lebanese Hezbollah under the laws of armed combat.

To Kasey's point, the reciprocal is true, too! The laws of armed combat permit Hezbollah strikes on Israeli command and administrative staff.