There are much more credible arguments that deems Israel illegally stopped them than against it.
You have to give it to Hasbara though, they will always spin it as it is legal and as if Israel checks law books before hand. In reality ITF does whatever it wants. Then Hasbara tells lies and half truths. They don't care if it is even believable, but always have something to say, and say it as if it was the only truth.
From your own link it says that the UN concluded that the blockade is legal (“Israel was justified in stopping vessels even outside its territorial waters”), only that excessive force was used. That was 15 years ago, now no excessive force was used so everything was legal right?
And regarding your second link, which has nothing to do with this matter, but it’s easy to pick and choose one small mistake when you ignore that Israel killed Hamas leader which was literally hiding under a hospital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_European_Hospital_st...
It is contested but the general consensue is that the actions are illegal.
The interception of the Gaza-bound flotilla is illegal because it occurred in international waters against civilian vessels carrying humanitarian aid, because the underlying blockade of Gaza itself is widely considered unlawful under international law.
A blockade that causes severe deprivation to civilians, through actions such as restricting food, medicine, and essential supplies violates the prohibition on collective punishment in the Fourth Geneva Convention. Since the blockade has this effect, enforcing it through the seizure of peaceful ships breaches international humanitarian and maritime law.
The interception also infringes on freedom of navigation and fails the tests of necessity and proportionality, making the action likely inconsistent with accepted legal standards.
The arguments put forward for it being legal are really just cover/propoganda for punitive actions by Israel to aid in its continued genocide.
If you decide that a law is unlawful you can’t act on it, you need to go to courts, which have been tried and dismissed since laws are not a matter of popular opinion, but a matter of informed and professional opinion.
You can get 2 billion people to say that the blockade is illegal but it doesn’t make it so.
Likewise Israel saying it is legal doesn't make it so.
Given the number of international laws it has broken and that it refuses to abide by, or deliberately avoids, decisions by international courts it's slightly more complicated than going to court
Wow nice, I wish i could donate, but US Taxpayers already cover for me. What do the donors get? Like souvenirs? Funding Genocidal ITF to kill more children and bomb more hospitals has to have its perks.
Would you accept it even if it was shown? Or would you go on with adjacents to say how it is not evidence?
Get new points from the ITF. Maybe hold them to the a fraction of accountability that you throw around.
>why the need for expensive surveillance if your chief goal was to annihilate a population
A question suited for ITF and Netanyahu maybe? Ask them spend less. He gets to prolong this Genocide, then he gets to stay out of trial for his previous crimes. Maybe ITF is not in a hurry.
>Civilians left these areas, or at least asked to leave many, many times.
Where to?
Hind Rajab ,literally a child, was brutally killed when fleeing their home, after being asked of course. The ambulance which came to rescue was blown up by the ITF. The Whole world has seen it all, ITF proudly displays it. Maybe it is time to update the Hasbara points.
>Don't forget to mention about the last time you risked your own life.
Why? ITF certainly risks many children's life, just for sport often.
Kid, civilians die in war zones, that's sad truth about world that you was born into. It sucks that this child was killed. Nobody in IDF or in any other army wants to kill civilians and children, btw unlike Hamas pigs that openly bragged about it, and benefit from every single civilian death in this conflict.
> Why
Because there's no shortage of armchair operators that know better how to make split second decisions in combat. Also, they never do anything wrong because they never happen to be in situation where you have to decide between bad and worse.
Gaza had one, care to explain what happened to it. I would say it was before the October 7th.
Israel took control of Rafah border. And do not give full control to Egypt. Egypt, under the tripartite agreement with US and Israel is restricted heavily to be subservient to Israel. Stop the lies please.
>they could only leave through Egypt or Israel.
Gaza has, you know, a sea? Into Mediterranean. But ITF shoots down Palestinians, and detains anyone who goes there, par for the rogue nation it is. Yes, before Oct 7th.
I have no skin in the game, but I will do that for you, if you bring back the children from the death. Can you do that? Let's start from the Nakba. Maybe even from last year.
No one is asking people to go back to Europe. All you have to do is Stop the Genocide, Repair. Reconcile. And stop the apartheid. But you know what, you have decided that Israel is untenable without war. Israel is of no use to the neo Imperialists, unless it keeps the region unstable.
Squint a bit harder and see if US toppled a democratically elected government in Mexico and installed a cruel dictator for oil? And shot down a civilian flight from Mexico? Maybe not.
There are much more credible arguments that deems Israel illegally stopped them than against it.
You have to give it to Hasbara though, they will always spin it as it is legal and as if Israel checks law books before hand. In reality ITF does whatever it wants. Then Hasbara tells lies and half truths. They don't care if it is even believable, but always have something to say, and say it as if it was the only truth.
Here is the Spokesperson telling that a calendar in a hospital as a guard duty card. As I said, tell lies and tell it with conviction. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20231116-...