A/HRC/28/69 reportedly ordered to vacate their homes by ISIS, with ISIS then confiscating their houses and property for its fighters’ own use. 283. In the above incidents, there is no evidence to suggest that ISIS’s order that civilians leave was justified by either the security of the civilians involved or by military necessity. Such conduct amounts to the war crime of forcible displacement. 284. Further, there is no evidence to suggest that the appropriation of property as described above was justified by military necessity and it is evident that the houses and any property within was then provided to foreign ISIS fighters and their families for their personal use. Consequently, there are reasonable grounds to believe that ISIS has committed the war crime of pillaging. 63

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