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Lebanon’s Army Regulations (1971) and Field Manual (1996) prohibit pillage of the dead.
Lebanon, Règlement Général de l’Armée, No. 1/400, Ministère de la Défense, Commandement de l’Armée, 14 January 1971, § 17; Manuel de Service du Terrain dans l’Armée Libanaise, Arrêt No. 3188/A.A./Q, Département de l’Armée pour la Planification, Direction des Etudes Générales, 23 October 1996, § 8.
Lebanon’s Code of Military Justice (1968) provides that “any person, military or not, who, in an area of military operations, despoils a … dead person” commits a punishable offence.
Lebanon, Code of Military Justice, 1968, Article 132.