A/HRC/2/7 page 31 http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/CompArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506.L3306396.00.html.) 54 For international humanitarian law prohibitions on destryong civilian property, including homes, see articles 53 and 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and article 52 of Additional Protocol I. 55 Lebanon crisis: Service Availability Assessment, Ministry of Health and WHO, 29 August 2006. For international humanitarian law prohibitions on attacking civilian hospitals, see e.g. article 18 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, article 12 of Additional Protocol I and Rule 28 in the ICRC Study. 56 During the evening of 23 July, for example, two Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) ambulances carrying six wounded to Tebnine Governmental Hospital were hit by Israeli aircraft in two separate attacks, wounding six LRC volunteers (ICRC press release, 29 August 2006). On 11 August, an LRC ambulance was hit directly by two projectiles, injuring two LRC volunteers; no hostilities were taking place in the vicinity at the time. That night, a convoy of hundreds of cars occupied mostly by civilians fleeing the area of Marjayoun came under fire from Israeli aircraft; one LRC first aid volunteer, Mikhael Jbayieh, was killed in the attack. LRC continued its work, taking six dead and 32 wounded to nearby hospitals (ICRC press release, 12 August 2006). For international humanitarian law prohibitions on attacking medical transports, see e.g. articles 21 and 22 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, article 21 of Additional Protocol I and Rule 29 in the ICRC Study, see note 21 above. 57 Common article 3 to the Geneva Convention (preventing “violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds” of those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause”). Common article 3 is considered by the International Court of Justice to “constitute a minimum yardstick … which, in the Court’s opinion, reflects what the Court in 1949 called ‘elementary conditions of humanity’”. Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America). I.C.J. Reports 1986, para. 218. See also ICRC Study, note 21 above, p. 312. (“The prohibition on killing civilians and persons hors de combat is set forth in numerous military manuals. It is also contained in the legislation of a large number of States. This prohibition has been upheld extensively in national and international case-law. Furthermore, it is supported by official statements and other practice.”) 58 See Human Rights Watch, Fatal Strikes, pp. 37-38. 59 According to Lebanon, Israel destroyed 107 bridges and overpasses and 137 roads over an area of 445,000 m2. Government of Lebanon, “Setting the stage…”, see note 42 above, p. 12, available at http://www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb/Documents/StockholmConferenceDocument.pdf. 60 ICRC Study, see note 21 above, Rule 8; Additional Protocol I, art. 52 (2). Israel agrees that this definition is “generally accepted”. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem, “Responding to Hizbullah attacks from Lebanon: Issues of proportionality, Legal Background”, 25 July 2006.