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Because Israel needed to frame its military response as legal, Hajjar explained, they declared that stateless Palestinians who formed armed military groups were not lawful combatants. Thus, neither Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, nor the foreign fighters in Iraq would qualify as lawful combatants or POWs, even under Protocol I. There are two types of enemy fighters: lawful combatants, those who follow the rules of war, and are entitled to the legal protections outlined for prisoners of war in the Geneva Conventions; and unlawful combatants, those who disregard the accepted rules of warfare, such as Al Qaeda fighters, who do not deserve those same protections. |
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