Originally Posted by
langleybaston
Not strictly aviation but may be resonant with today's news:
My Military Law/ Geneva Convention detailed knowledge stops at 1918, the year when my library and interests stop.
However, changes since then seem superficial, and in those days having or bearing arms in a hospital [even temporary sanctuary such as a Nunnery] rendered the culprits fair game for summary execution, rather than regarded as surrendering, and thus P o W.
Not that Palestine is officially a war.
The British were not officially at war with Argentina in 1982, but after the Argentine hospital ship
ARA Almirante Irizar used its searchlights to illuminate a British raiding party the government in London made it very clear to Buenos Aires that any repetition would result in the British regarding the vessel as a combatant and attacking it, Red Cross or no.