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1. “Incendiary weapon” means any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set
fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat,
or a combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered
on the target.
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(a) Incendiary weapons can take the form of, for example, flame throwers, fougasses, shells,
rockets, grenades, mines, bombs and other containers of incendiary substances.
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(b) Incendiary weapons do not include:
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(i) Munitions which may have incidental incendiary effects, such as illuminants, tracers,
smoke or signalling systems;
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(ii) Munitions designed to combine penetration, blast or fragmentation effects with an
additional incendiary effect, such as armour-piercing projectiles, fragmentation shells,
explosive bombs and similar combined-effects munitions in which the incendiary effect
is not specifically designed to cause burn injury to persons, but to be used against
military objectives, such as armoured vehicles, aircraft and installations or facilities.
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2. “Concentration of civilians” means any concentration of civilians, be it permanent
or temporary, such as in inhabited parts of cities, or inhabited towns or villages,
or as in camps or columns of refugees or evacuees, or groups of nomads.
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3. “Military objective” means, so far as objects are concerned, any object which by its
nature, location, purpose of use makes an effective contribution to military action
and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances
ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.
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4. “Civilian objects” are all objects which are not military objectives as defined in
paragraph 3.
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5. “Feasible precautions” are those precautions which are practicable or practically
possible taking into account all circumstances ruling at the time, including humanitarian
and military considerations.