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Legal Protection for Medical Personnel in International Armed Conflict; International Humanitarian Law Perspective

Authors
Levina Yustitianingtyas1, *, Laily Rodhiyatul Habibah1
1Fakultas Hukum Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: levina.yustitianingtyas@fh.um-surabaya.ac.id
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Levina Yustitianingtyas
Available Online 13 May 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-022-0_26How to use a DOI?
Keywords
international humanitarian law; medical personnel; international armed conflict
Abstract

This legal research aims to find out the regulation on legal protection for medical personnel in international armed conflicts and how sanctions can be applied to perpetrators of violations against medical personnel and to find out the factors that prevent the rules of international humanitarian law from being obeyed by the parties to the dispute. This research method uses normative juridical and through a statute approach and a case approach, namely an approach to legislation and a case approach. In the case of the shooting of the humanitarian aid ship for Gaza Palestine by Israel on the Mavi Marmara ship in which there were medical personnel and volunteers from various countries, all kinds of attacks should be carried out by the parties to the dispute against medical personnel and medical units and become the object of attacks for the sake of military, political advantage is a violation of International Humanitarian Law. The conclusion of this legal writing is that in an armed conflict, medical officers and medical units and facilities have received protection as regulated in International Humanitarian Law, namely in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Additional Protocol. Lack of strict implementation of international humanitarian law by the UN Security Council against violators thus ignoring the protection of medical personnel in international armed conflicts.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st UMSurabaya Multidisciplinary International Conference 2021 (MICon 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 May 2023
ISBN
978-2-38476-022-0
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-022-0_26How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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