Belgium
Practice Relating to Rule 25. Medical Personnel
Section B. Equipment of medical personnel with light individual weapons
Belgium’s Law of War Manual (1983) states: “Medical personnel may carry arms but only to defend themselves or the patients in their charge.”
Belgium’s Teaching Manual for Soldiers provides: “The prohibition to attack hospitals remains applicable even if … its personnel carry light individual weapons for their own defence or for the defence of the wounded in their charge, the establishment or material.”