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I am fixated on the man with crutches. His head is down. He struggles, the pain and humiliation unequal to any human. These are Palestinians, many of them medical workers. They are wearing very ordinary briefs and shoes, suggesting the very basic means available to these men. Imagine being one of those Israeli soldiers? What must be going through their heads? The Geneva Conventions (1949) says that civilians must not be taken prisoner, and that 'outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment' is basically a war crime. Each one of these Israeli soldiers, regardless of what they are thinking, are war criminals.