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Legal experts say Islamic State jihadi-tots are fair game……


Damned right they are, and their deaths are to be blamed on their leaders….

ARMED ISIS CHILDREN CAN BE TARGETED, LEGAL EXPERTS SAY

BY YONAH JEREMY BOB
 SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 19:27

ISIS’s tactic of arming children on a mass scale changes the rules and requires taking a new look at how to apply the laws of war.

 

Though children have always had a protected status in war, armed ISIS children can be targeted under the laws of armed conflict, IDC Herzliya Professor Daphne Richemond-Barak told the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

“If children are holding a gun then direct participation in hostilities rules apply to children… children might be targets and not just victims,” she said.

Richemond-Barak and Syracuse Professor William Banks spoke to the Post in the midst of the International Institute of Counterterrorism Conference in Herzliya, discussing a range of new battlefield and law issues ranging from subterranean warfare to new standards for targeted killings.

The premise of Richemond-Barak’s comments about armed children as targets is that until ISIS started to use children on a mass scale, the issue of Western countries going up against large numbers of children simply had not come up.

 

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