You can't target personnel with incendiaries (e.g. white phosphorus), but you can target their equipment with incendiaries. While this normally means stuff like

You can't target personnel with incendiaries (e.g. white phosphorus), but you can target their equipment with incendiaries. While this normally means stuff like artillery pieces or crew-served weapons, belts and canteens are also considered "equipment". There's ways around international law and enough fog of war on the battlefield that anything short of organized gross violation isn't going to get brought before a court. Totally agreed that the use of these laser weapons could obviously and easily blind someone won't matter because it's not intended to blind someone.