



Ferraro ‘Determining the Beginning and End of an Occupation Under International Humanitarian Law’, 94 International Review of the Red Cross 885 (2012) 137 International Committee of the Red Cross, International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflict, 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross, 2015, p 11. Cameron, 'Article 2: Application of the Convention', ICRC, Commentary on the First Geneva Convention, 2016, §§296ff T. Yet, the elements of an occupation can be found in Article 42 of the 1907 Hague Regulations, which affirms that ‘a territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army.’ This same standard is used to determine the existence of a state of occupation under the Geneva Conventions. The Geneva Conventions do not define occupation.
