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Under South Africa’s LOAC Manual (1996), “firing on … a flag of truce” is qualified as a “grave breach” and a war crime.
South Africa, Presentation on the South African Approach to International Humanitarian Law, Appendix A, Chapter 4: International Humanitarian Law (The Law of Armed Conflict), National Defence Force, 1996, §§ 39(e) and 41.