• Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    A belligerent warship sailing on the high seas had the right to visit and search all merchant vessels

    Israel‘s Navy is the belligerent warship. Flotilla is the merchant.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      visit and search all merchant vessels

      A. Where do you see detain, seize, kidnap and deportation from a state they never intended to enter? Nowhere? Because it isn’t legal.

      B. Yes Israel is the warship. No they’re a humanitarian ship which is specifically allowed by international law so long as they agree to security measures like… A visit and search. As an aside a merchant is involved in commerce ie. Trade. Humanitarians are the ideological antithesis of Marchants.

      C. You seem to think they can exert a total blockade which is illegal, your own source cites the 2019 decision that the 2019 blockade was legal specifically because it did not bar aid.