What's so funny is that the average Arab laughs that this is even being brought up. He views it as another example of how the West will eventually lose because they are unwilling to do what it takes to resolve the matter at hand. They, meaning the average Arab, as more respect for Israel then they do the West because the Jews fully understand an eye for eye.How about being human shoud be reason enough to grant them geneva convention rights?
Also, an insurgency movement is categorized as an organized resistance movement. So clearly, yes, they are as per convention 1. The 1977 protocols also clearly extend here to combatants bearing arms during an attack.
You know why the terrorists have such a hard time operating in Saudi Arabia? Because they know if they get caught that life is going to suck for a very very long time and if they don't get caught but killed and sent to the virgins, life is going to suck for their entire family for a very very long time.
They view the Convention as a huge joke and can't believe that it even exists.