The Geneva conventions are clear. Combatants and those even suspected of aiding combatants are not refugees.
So if a refugee in the 48 war actually didn't qualify as a refugee because of the varying degrees of involvment as specified by the Geneva conventions, even if the UN listed them as refugees due to its failure to follow its own protocols and segregate combatants from legitimate refugees during the registration process, are their descendants today eligible for refugee status and protections ?
IE If a person never qualified for refugee status, how can their descendants be considered refugees ?
See
IV Geneva convention
Quote
So if a refugee in the 48 war actually didn't qualify as a refugee because of the varying degrees of involvment as specified by the Geneva conventions, even if the UN listed them as refugees due to its failure to follow its own protocols and segregate combatants from legitimate refugees during the registration process, are their descendants today eligible for refugee status and protections ?
IE If a person never qualified for refugee status, how can their descendants be considered refugees ?
See
IV Geneva convention
Quote
- Art. 5 Where in the territory of a Party to the conflict, the latter is satisfied that an individual protected person is definitely suspected of or engaged in activities hostile to the security of the State, such individual person shall not be entitled to claim such rights and privileges under the present Convention as would, if exercised in the favour of such individual person, be prejudicial to the security of such State.
- Where in occupied territory an individual protected person is detained as a spy or saboteur, or as a person under definite suspicion of activity hostile to the security of the Occupying Power, such person shall, in those cases where absolute military security so requires, be regarded as having forfeited rights of communication under the present Convention.