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Bara för att några amatörer i rättsliga frågor, bland dom en före detta Nya Zeeländsk premiärminister, skriver i en rapport att dom tycker att blockaden är laglig så betyder det inte att den är det.
Om det istället hade varit experter med behörig kompetens som uttryckt sig i frågan så hade vi fått veta att blockaden är olaglig. Men detta får ju inte framkomma eftersom Israel då ställs i dålig dager.
Så här säger en amerikansk expert på marin jurisdiktion och ombordstigningsfrågor till havs:
Israel’s blockade of Gaza is illegal says Maritime boundaries expert
‘Israel has declared a blockade on Gaza and justified previous fatal attacks on neutral civilian vessels on the High Seas in terms of enforcing that embargo, under the legal cover given by the San Remo Manual of International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea.
‘There are however fundamental flaws in this line of argument. It falls completely on one fact alone. San Remo only applies to blockade in times of armed conflict. Israel is not currently engaged in an armed conflict, and presumably does not wish to be. San Remo does not confer any right to impose a permanent blockade outwith times of armed conflict, and in fact specifically excludes as illegal a general blockade on an entire population.
‘It should not be denied that Israel suffers from sporadic terrorist attacks emanating from Gaza. However this does not come close to reaching the bar of armed conflict that would trigger the right to impose a limited naval blockade in terms of San Remo. To make a comparison, in the 1970′s and 1980′s the United Kingdom suffered continued terrorist attack from the Irish Republican Army, with much more murderous impact causing many more deaths than anything Israel has suffered in recent years from Gaza. However nobody would seek to argue that the UK would have had the right to mount a general naval blockade of the Republic of Ireland in the 1970′s and 1980′s, even though the Republic was undoubtedly the base for much IRA supply and operations. Justifications of Israeli naval action against neutral civilian ships by San Remo is based on special pleading and an impossibly strained definition of the term “armed conflict’. “
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Den här rapporten som nu har lagts fram betyder egentligen ingenting. Det är bara en domstol som kan avgöra om blockaden är laglig eller inte. Och om man skulle gå till en domstol så skulle ju den såklart med stöd av de lagar som finns - finna att blockaden är olaglig. Därför kan vi alla avfärda denna rapport som en tramsrapport. Den tjänar bara ett politiskt syfte och har ingenting med lagen och rättvisa att göra.
Här är fler som säger att Israels blockad av Gaza är olaglig:
U.N. Human Rights Chief:
Israel’s Blockade of Gaza Strip Is Illegal
GENEVA — United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay on Friday accused Israel of violating the rules of warfare with its blockade stopping people and goods from moving in or out of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539363,00.html#ixzz1R1oJ8sjl
Gaza blockade illegal, must be lifted: U.N.'s Pillay
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay “Israel’s blockade of Gaza is illegal and should be lifted” “International humanitarian law prohibits starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and…it is also prohibited to impose collective punishment on civilians”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/06/05/us-israel-flotilla-un-idUSTRE6541JD20100605
UN Panel of Human Rights Experts published report compiled by by a former UN war crimes prosecutor Desmond de Silva, a judge from Trinidad, Karl Hudson-Phillips, and a Malaysian women’s rights advocate, Mary Shanthi Dairiam. They reiterated “the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian enclave is illegal because of the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/23/un-panel-israel-war-crimes
Gisha “The closure of Gaza is neither a siege, nor a blockade, nor an economic sanction – it is an illegal act of collective punishment and stands in violation of both international and Israeli law.”
http://www.gisha.org/UserFiles/File/publications/GazaClosureDefinedEng.pdf
The International Committee of the Red Cross “the blockade violates the Geneva Convention, which bans “collective punishment” of a civilian population.” The ICRC called on Israel to lift the blockage.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Red-Cross-Israels-Gaza-Blockade-Breaks-International-Law-96280463.html
Amnesty International “As a form of collective punishment, Israel’s continuing blockade of Gaza is a flagrant violation of international law.”
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/suffocating-gaza-israeli-blockades-effects-palestinians-2010-06-01
Human Rights Watch “The blockade, which amounts to the unlawful collective punishment of Gaza’s civilian population, has severely damaged the economy, leaving 70 to 80 percent of Gazans in poverty and dependent on humanitarian aid.”
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/05/31/israel-full-impartial-investigation-flotilla-killings-essential
Center for Constitutional Rights “Israel’s position is that a lawful maritime blockade is in effect off the coast of Gaza. International law recognizes blockades in the context of armed conflicts, but it does not recognize a blockade by a country against a territory which it is occupying”
http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/ccr-condemns-israel%26%23039;s-killing-freedom-flotilla-participants
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