Retreating soldiers aren’t hors de combat, you don’t have to be actively shooting at your enemy to be a legitimate target. If you did then every IDF soldier who was the subject of a 🔻 video while they were chilling was the victim of a war crime.
i was 15 when bush sr put colin powell and general schwartzkopf on the podium to show smartbomb clips like it was the Consumer Electronics Show (e3 didn't exist yet) i will never forget the firebombing of a retreating army, which is a huuuuge Geneva Convention crime. nobody was held responsible.