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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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Outside the blockade area and on the high seas,34 belligerents relied on the practice of "visit and search"3s to stop vessels suspected of carrying "con-traband" to the enemy.36 A belligerent warship sailing on the high seas had the right to visit and search all merchant vessels. Merchants found carrying enemy contraband were captured and escorted to the belligerent's nearest home port. The belligerent nation's prize court then determined the fate of the captured ship and cargo.37 In cases where merchants resisted either capture or visit and search, the blockading force was entitled to pursue and, if neces-sary, damage or destroy the vessel to force the ship to submit.

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belligerents today continue to enforce blockades from long distance or through blockade zones. They do so because of three twentieth-century developments in maritime warfare: first, the growing importance to belligerents of conducting economic warfare in conjunction with armed con-flict;s3 second, the introduction of a large array of new weapons to the maritime battlefield; and third, the proliferation of modern weapons to less powerful nations incapable of conducting traditional blockade. In combination, these three developments have forced states to replace traditional blockade form with long-distance blockade or blockade zones.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Keywords warship and belligerent. They're neither a belligerent nor is it a warship.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Read the whole linked paper and you will see that detaining ship, cargo, and crew is legal if they refuse to turn around.

You might not be aware, but Israel has been allowing in aid for a while now. There is no total blockade.

Look up definition of merchant ship. Sure you might qualify them as a pleasure ship instead.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Combatants and neutral ships that breach exclusion, again Israel isn't even claiming that's what happened so why are you?

I'm not because they haven't, there's a man made famine at the moment hence all the starving children.

USCG merchant definition:

The term "commercial vessel" is defined by the United States Coast Guard as any vessel (i.e. boat or ship) engaged in commercial trade or that carries passengers for hire.

It is not involved in trade nor available for hire. You should read once ever.