February 11, 2024 - The Convention was adopted by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victiims of War, held at Geneva from 21 April to 12 August 1949.

1. Deportations, transfers, evacuations - Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva ConventionThe first paragraph of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention is of the utmost importance and the principle it expresses is repeated, or implied, in other provisions of the Convention.248 Moreover, the ...

Pursuant to Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention: an “Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territ

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May 10, 2017 - It was in this new role that I ... Bank and other conquered territories violates the Fourth Geneva Convention related to the protection of victims of war and, specifically, its prohibition on settlements (Article 49(6)).Footnote 7 This prohibition, I wrote, is categorical and ...

November 20, 2019 - First, it’s true that although ... that rejected the principal Israeli argument for why the settlements do not violate the Fourth Geneva Convention (i.e., that Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention does not govern the West Bank at all)....

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December 10, 2009 - It is widely accepted that the Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel are illegal under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

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Civilian persons under the Third Geneva Convention are defined by their exclusion with respect to the armed forces. Any person who is not a combatant is considered a civilian as defined under Article 4(A)(1), (2), (3) and (6) of the Third Geneva Convention as well as under Article 43 of Additional ...

June 12, 2019 - Christine Chanet, the French judge ... are not occupied territories and that the Geneva Convention spoke of forced transfers, such as what the Nazis did, not the voluntary transfers that Israel engages in. Firstly, Article 49 of the Geneva Convention was drafted following the ...

December 29, 2013 - First, such an interpretation implies that Article 49(6) is intended to protect the citizens of the occupying power, in this case Israeli citizens. However, the sole purpose of the 4th Geneva Convention is to protect the civilians living under occupation, not the citizens of the occupying power, ...

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February 3, 2024 - As soon as possible the above mentioned information shall be forwarded to the Information Bureau described in Article 122 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1949, which shall transmit this information to the Power on which these persons depend ...

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