4.2 Prohibited Methods of Warfare

4.2.1 No Quarter OrderThe surrender's denial: the order that no quarter be given (the enemy's destruction despite the offer to surrender) — the absolute bar (the AP I's rule); the incitement's faces; the wounded's killing as the grave breach.4.2.2 PerfidyThe false protected status: the killing-capturing through the good faith's betrayal (the protective emblems' feigning, the surrender's fake, the civilian dress's combat, the UN's emblem's abuse) — the war crime (the Hague-AP line); the ruses' distinction: the lawful deceptions (the camouflage, the decoys, the feints) — the line: the enemy's confidence in protection betrayed vs the enemy's vigilance deceived.4.2.3 StarvationThe civilians' starvation as method: the food-and-water deprivation bar (the AP I-II rules); the indispensable objects' attacks (the crops, the irrigation, the water sources); the sieges' legality's conditions (the civilians' passage, the humanitarian relief's allowance — the modern sieges' record: the blockade-and-starvation cases); the Yemen-and-Syria-and-Gaza faces.4.2.4 PillageThe plunder's bar (the oldest rule — the Hague's line): the private appropriation of the enemy's property; the occupation's pillage's prohibition; the cultural pillage's faces (U3.9); the looting's prosecutions.4.2.5 Reprisals against Non-Military ObjectivesThe reprisals' regime: the retaliatory violations against the enemy's breaches — the historic licence's modern erosion: the reprisals against the protected persons-and-objects prohibited (the GC-AP line: no reprisals against the civilians, the wounded, the POWs, the cultural property, the environment); the reprisals' remaining narrow…