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Practice Relating to Rule 28. Medical Units
III. Military Manuals
Zimbabwe’s Code of Conduct for Combatants (1993) states: “Special protection is to be given to … hospital[s]”. 
Zimbabwe, Code of Conduct for Combatants, Joint publication of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and the International Committee of the Red Cross Regional Delegation in Harare, 1993, p. 14.
Under the heading “Distinctive signs”, the Code of Conduct also shows an image of a building with a red cross on a white ground and states: “Leave these buildings [and] establishments … untouched”. 
Zimbabwe, Code of Conduct for Combatants, Joint publication of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and the International Committee of the Red Cross Regional Delegation in Harare, 1993, p. 13.
VI. Other National Practice
The Report on the Practice of Zimbabwe regards the rule on the protection of medical objects as being part of customary international law. 
Report on the Practice of Zimbabwe, 1998, Chapter 2.7.