What is “imperative military requirements?
Military requirements can be of two kinds: on the one hand, there is the necessity to destroy the physical base for military action when persons are discovered committing hostile military acts, and in this respect, a house from which a grenade is thrown is a military base, not different from a bunker in other parts of the world. The measure under discussion is of utmost deterrent importance, especially in a country where capital punishment is not used against terrorists who kill women and children. Regulation 119(1) of the regulations that are in force in the Occupied Areas states as follows: A Military Commander may by direct order the forfeiture to the Government… of any house, structure or land from which he has reason to believe that any firearm has been illegally discharged, or any bomb, grenade or explosive or incendiary article illegally thrown, detonated, exploded or otherwise discharged, or of any house, structure or land in any area, town, village, quarter or street the inh
