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Egypt
Practice Relating to Rule 89. Violence to Life
IV. National Legislation
Egypt’s Penal Code (1937) and Military Criminal Code (1966) prohibit homicide of the wounded. 
Egypt, Penal Code, 1937, Article 251bis; Military Criminal Code, 1966, Article 137.
VI. Other National Practice
In 1967, in a note submitted to the ICRC, Egypt qualified the “extermination of great numbers of the wounded” as a “flagrant violation of the elementary principle of humanity, and a serious breach of the laws of war and the Geneva Conventions of 1949”. 
Egypt, Note to the International Committee of the Red Cross, 7 July 1967, annexed to Letter dated 17 July 1967 to the UN Secretary-General, UN Doc. S/8064, 17 July 1967, §§ 1 and 2(c).