• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    3 days 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 days 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.