A/HRC/3/2 page 141 those areas only sporadically and always under incredibly difficult security conditions. “The time for improved access is long overdue,” insisted Mr. Kellenberger. “Even life-saving, emergency evacuations so desperately needed are, at best, delayed for days. We also face enormous obstacles to bringing in aid convoys loaded with essential foodstuffs, water and medicines for trapped civilians.” 156 MSF. “Humanitarian corridor into South Lebanon is a delusion”, says Christopher Stokes, 1 August 2006. http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?objectid=C925D74A-5056AA77-6C9C132FEAF157B1&component=toolkit.article&method=full_html (retrieved on 7 November 2006). 157 See section on the blockade, C.I.f.ii. 158 GC Additional Protocol I, article 71(2) (international armed conflict) and implicitly recognized in GC Additional Protocol II, article 18(2) (non-international armed conflict). 159 This rule is contained in Fourth Geneva Convention IV, article 23; and in GC Additional Protocol I, article 70(2) (international armed conflict). This rule is implicit in GC Additional Protocol II, article 18(2) (non-international armed conflict). 160 S/2005/740, Report of the Secretary-General on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, 28 November 2005, para. 32. 161 In its report Les conséquences du conflit de l’été 2006 sur les conditions de vie et la santé des populations civiles du Sud-Liban of 12 October 2006, Médecins du Monde accounts for an attack against the Christian Orthodox church of Rachaya el Foukhar. According to the report the church, which gave shelter to some 120 civilians, was directly targeted by shelling on two occasions for no apparent reason. 162 See in particular GC Additional Protocol I, articles 47, 48, 52, and 53. 163 See ICRC Study, Vol. 1, p. 25. 164 ICJ Reports 1996, paras. 78-79. 165 ICC Statute, article 8(2)(b)(ix) and (e)(iv). 166 According to the two men’s account, a 14 year old child was also arrested by Israeli soldiers, handcuffed and blindfolded. He was forced to walk with the group for 2 hours, but was finally released. Israeli soldiers left him alone in an area where heavy bombing took place. He finally took refuge under a car where he spent several hours before going back to his village. 167 Khiam Rehabilitation Center for the Victims of Torture. Memorandum relevant to the detention of Lebanese citizens as hostages during the war of July 2006. http://www.khiamcenter.org/MemoJulyWar.html (retrieved on 8 November 2006).