Your own source says visit and search, not capture and take as a prize, you’ll notice that’s reserved for combatant ships not neutrals outside of the exclusion zone.
Similarly the source your source cites specifically and in multiple lays or that humanitarian aid is a different beast and indeed blocking aid makes a blockade illegal.
It is. Did their ship get to shore, are their doctors doing doctor things in hospital (tents) in Gaza? Journalists doing journalism on the ground? No? Then they are preventing aid. Blockades are for security, what security risk is it to Israel for these people to get there on a ship Israel themselves searched and found no contraband nor combatants? None?
That’s how a blockade works. You even sourced your own contradiction, the blockade *must" be maintained by force a blockade that isn’t adequately enforced is not a blockade. You announce intention slow to boarding speed and make way to your destination until ordered to slow and be boarded to enter.
Yes, Israel specifically has not accused them of that nor charged them with anything that could be construed as such.
Can’t let civilians simply sail straight into a combat zone in a foreign country either.
You yourself provided the source that says they can be boarded and searched, at no point does it say they can be barred entry nor taken as prize when on humanitarian mission.
You’d cheer a hospital ship being seized, the doctors deported and they’re supplies seized?
You just didn’t read it.
Your own source says visit and search, not capture and take as a prize, you’ll notice that’s reserved for combatant ships not neutrals outside of the exclusion zone.
Similarly the source your source cites specifically and in multiple lays or that humanitarian aid is a different beast and indeed blocking aid makes a blockade illegal.
Well the aid isn’t being blocked.
The flotilla also didn’t agree to stop and search, but had to be boarded and commandeered.
The flotilla could have sailed to Ashdod port and unload their aid there for further delivery on land.
Blockade running is serious business. Can’t let civilians simply sail straight into a combat zone in a foreign country either.
Pretty ludicrous to expect that.
It is. Did their ship get to shore, are their doctors doing doctor things in hospital (tents) in Gaza? Journalists doing journalism on the ground? No? Then they are preventing aid. Blockades are for security, what security risk is it to Israel for these people to get there on a ship Israel themselves searched and found no contraband nor combatants? None?
That’s how a blockade works. You even sourced your own contradiction, the blockade *must" be maintained by force a blockade that isn’t adequately enforced is not a blockade. You announce intention slow to boarding speed and make way to your destination until ordered to slow and be boarded to enter.
Yes, Israel specifically has not accused them of that nor charged them with anything that could be construed as such.
You yourself provided the source that says they can be boarded and searched, at no point does it say they can be barred entry nor taken as prize when on humanitarian mission.
You’d cheer a hospital ship being seized, the doctors deported and they’re supplies seized?