1. Provisions in the First Geneva Convention
a. Ambulances and hospitals should be considered as neutral as long as they
accommodate wounded and sick.b. Medical staff like Doctors should be considered neutral on their duty.
d. The treatments of wounded and sick should be done without any discrimination.
e. The symbol of Red Cross should be recognized as the means of identifying ambulances, hospital and evacuation parties.
2. Provision of Second Geneva Convention
a. All the parties should protect and care for the wounded, sick and shipwrecked.
b. A warship cannot capture the hospital ships' staff but can hold the wounded, sick and shipwrecked as the prisoners of war.
c. The neutral vessels should be allowed to collect and care for the wounded, sick and shipwrecked.
d. The hospital ships cannot be used for any military purpose and they should not be attacked or captured.
3. Provision of the Third Geneva Convention
a. The prisoner of the war are the responsibility of the state not the person who capture them.
b. The prisoner of war must be treated humanely without any discrimination and their medical needs must be met.
c. The prisoner must not be tortured neither by physically nor mentally.
d. The prisoner of war must be treated as follows:
i. Allowed to correspond regularly with relatives and to receive relief parcel.
ii. Allowed to keep their clothes, feeding utensils and personal effects.
iii. Supplied with adequate foods and clothing.
iv. Provided with quarters not inferior to those of their troops.
v. Paid for any work they do.
vi. Repatriated if seriously ill or wounded.
vii. Quickly released and repatriated when hostilities case.
4. Provision of the Fourth Geneva Convention: Protected civilians must be-
1. Treated humanely at all times and protected against acts or threats of violence, insults and public curiosity.
2. Entitled to respect for their honour, family rights, religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs.
3. Specially protected, for example in safety zones if wounded, sick, old children under 15, expectant mothers
4. Enabled to exchange family news of a personal kind.
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