re: #50 researchok

Also, I found this at JLaw

Excerpts:

Admittedly, I am not an expert on religious law so if I’m reading this incorrectly, please advise.

My understanding — based upon years of yeshivah education, but with the caveat that I am not a rabbi, religious scholar or otherwise an expert on the subject — is that the issue of non-combatants who remain after warning is not that they are deemed combatants who can be killed but, rather, that the soldier whose actions cause their deaths during combat operations which are aimed at combatants is not thereby guilty for their deaths. This is similar to the laws of war, under which a combatant is required to make reasonable efforts given the circumstances to avoid causing death or injury to non-combatants and is not guilty of violating the laws of war if, having undertaken such efforts (again, and this is a critical legal distinction that Israel’s detractors often knowingly ignore, assuming such efforts are possible in the particular circumstances), non-combatants are nevertheless injured or killed.