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Originally posted by Rich
Only if you're reading that silly Geneva convention.
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Not if it is being used as a shield by Insurgents/Enemy forces.
Furthermore, hospitals and ambulances lose their special protection when using hospitals as an observation post, as a shelter for able bodied combatants, or as a storeroom for arms or ammunition (except ammunition of the wounded until they are transferred), and when using ambulances to fire upon the enemy.
http://www.tpub.com/content/medical/.../14274_219.htm