• Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Just like police can arrest you before you commit a crime, if you loudly and repeatedly proclaim the intention to commit it.

    They were asked repeatedly to change course and refused.

    Boarding, capturing the ship, confiscating cargo, and holding crew is exactly what international maritime law says is legal and customary in such situations like a blockade.

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      1 day ago

      A. Jurisdiction. B. You’re confusing ras with PC , you need pc for arrest you need ras to detain.

      Because they don’t have to, they’re well outside the blockade and Israel doesn’t own the ocean.

      No, international law says a ship entering a blockade illegally can be boarded and detained after they’ve been given a chance to leave the area… If they have to be given a chance to leave you can’t steal their property and kidnap their crew, that’s a crime.

      Read the law and don’t double post the same thing to me please.

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          10 hours ago

          They never entered an exclusion zone, Israel essentially said leave the region which is illegal.

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            3 hours ago

            I literally cited that high seas are okay if the course of the ship is clearly intending to breach the blockade.

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              3 hours ago

              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.

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                3 hours ago

                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.