RE: Palestinians Massing At The Israeli Border
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
Again, you are talking about something you do not know anything about. You do not have to be armed to be a violator.
Militant only means the person typically favors extreme, violent, or confrontational methods. It does not require participation. But the
International Law does not use the word "militant, but rather "
incitement:"
(Latest version of just one law from 2005)
1. Calls upon all States to adopt such measures as may be necessary and appropriate and in accordance with their obligations under international law to:
(a) Prohibit by law incitement to commit a terrorist act or acts;
(b) Prevent such conduct;
(c) Deny safe haven to any persons with respect to whom there is credibleand relevant information giving serious reasons for considering that they have been guilty of such conduct;"
2. Calls upon all States to cooperate, inter alia, to strengthen the security of their international borders, including by combating fraudulent travel documents and, to the extent attainable, by enhancing terrorist screening and passenger security procedures with a view to preventing those guilty of the conduct in paragraph 1 (a) from entering their territory;
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Civilians can only be described as militants when actively engaged in armed activities. When unarmed they have civilian status.
(COMMENT)
Any person commits an offence within the meaning of the Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism if that person by any means, directly or indirectly, unlawfully and wilfully, provides or collects funds with the intention that they should be used or in the knowledge that they are to be used, in full or in part, in order to carry out an act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.
Protected persons who commit an offence which is solely intended to harm or constitute an attempt on the life or limb of members of the occupying forces or administration, involve grave collective danger, seriously damage to property of the occupying forces or administration or the installations used by occupying forces are subject to a sentence of imprisonment. Occupying Power may impose the death penalty on a protected person in cases where the person is guilty of espionage, of serious acts of sabotage against the military installations of the Occupying Power or of intentional offences which have caused the death of one or more persons, provided that such offences were punishable by death under the law of the occupied territory in force.
If you just drive the care in which an act is committed, you are chargedable.
If you provide financing or material support for the act, you are chageable.
Participates as an accomplice in an offence.
International law does not prohibit States from adopting legislation that makes it a punishable offence for anyone to participate in hostilities, whether directly or indirectly.
Most Respectfully,
R