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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If israel has the right to defend themself from terrorists, these people had the right to defend themself from pirates.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Blockade Running is a hostile act. Intercepting a blockade runner is not piracy.

Piracy means stealing the cargo, the ships, and holding the crew and passengers for ransom. Israel did nothing of these. The ships were returned, the prisoners released, the aid cargo was delivered by truck to Gaza.

[–] sadfitzy@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are nations allowed to set up blockades outside of their EEZ?

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A blockade can be enforced in international waters. A ship that’s heading straight towards territorial waters and doesn’t change course when hailed, can be intercepted before it enters.

If you want to actually learn about this, start reading here.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/use-of-force-against-neutral-ships-outside-territorial-waters/56CF204865927A59302B21DCB66D9428

The International Law Association’s Helsinki Principles on the Law of Maritime Neutrality (1998) regulate the same question in Paragraph 5.1.2, which largely overlaps with the provisions of the San Remo Manual. Subparagraph 3 allows attacking of neutral ships that ‘are believed on reasonable grounds to be carrying contraband or breaching a blockade, and after prior warning they intentionally and clearly refuse to stop, or intentionally and clearly resist visit, search, capture or diversion’.

The San Remo Manual and the Helsinki Principles both contain provisions that permit the use of force against neutral ships that are ‘believed on reasonable grounds to be … breaching a blockade’. Blockades are ‘a belligerent operation to prevent vessels and/or aircraft of all nations … from entering or exiting specified ports, airports, or coastal areas belonging to, occupied by, or under the control of an enemy nation’.Footnote 18 Blockades are indiscriminate, in that they must be ‘enforced against every vessel of every nation’

EEZ is not the same as territorial waters.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

What you are referring to as an hostile act is the attempt to deliver aid to innocent people being murdered and starved by corrupted fascists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab

The ships were returned, the prisoners released, the aid cargo was delivered by truck to Gaza.

Israel forces attacked the flotilla on multiple occasions and damaged some of the ships. Some of the "prisoners" are still in jail, there are reports of human rights violations, harassment and humiliation.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/greta-thunberg-israel-gaza-aid-flotilla-activists-b2839851.html

I really hope the aid cargo was delivered to gaza but i'm afraid it's sitting in a distribution center with the all the rest