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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

They declared war, they are allowed to enct vlockades according to international law.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

They declared war? So they recognize a Palestinian state and Gaza as part of that states territory? They recognize Hamas as the government of Gaza?

Meanwhile the ICJ ruled that the blockade of Gaza amounts to a de facto occupation, well before Oct. 7. Furthermore the ICJ ruled that this occupation is illegal. So Israel is obliged to end the occupation, including the blockade as well as having the obligation to provide for the people under its occupation. An obligation which Israel also violates by the blockade.

On top of that there has been multiple rulings of preliminary measures Israel has to take to prevent the risk of a genocide being committed against the Palestinian people. The key obligation again being unhindered access for humanitarian aid.

Nothing of what Israel is doing is legal by international law.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Enact blockades in international waters?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

How else are you supposed to enact blockades in the age of anti-ship missiles?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there something specific in there you wanted to reference?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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Outside the blockade area and on the high seas,34 belligerents relied on the practice of "visit and search"3s to stop vessels suspected of carrying "con-traband" to the enemy.36 A belligerent warship sailing on the high seas had the right to visit and search all merchant vessels. Merchants found carrying enemy contraband were captured and escorted to the belligerent's nearest home port. The belligerent nation's prize court then determined the fate of the captured ship and cargo.37 In cases where merchants resisted either capture or visit and search, the blockading force was entitled to pursue and, if neces-sary, damage or destroy the vessel to force the ship to submit.

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belligerents today continue to enforce blockades from long distance or through blockade zones. They do so because of three twentieth-century developments in maritime warfare: first, the growing importance to belligerents of conducting economic warfare in conjunction with armed con-flict;s3 second, the introduction of a large array of new weapons to the maritime battlefield; and third, the proliferation of modern weapons to less powerful nations incapable of conducting traditional blockade. In combination, these three developments have forced states to replace traditional blockade form with long-distance blockade or blockade zones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

International law doesn't permit the blockading of humanitarian aid. Israel was allowed to board and inspect the vessel, but not block it from entry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Humanitarian aid is getting in through land borders into Gaza.

Gaza doesn’t have a port suitable for delivering large amounts of goods in the first place. Aid delivery has to go through the proper channels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

International law doesn't put up any of those restrictions. As an illegal occupying force Israel is not allowed to dictate what the "proper" channels are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Of course the occupying power can and has to do this according to international humanitarian law.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Don't you mean the illegal channel controlled by thr occupying force