Good old Greta

I wonder when they will admit there are not 500 in the flotilla. Only one boat is progressing to the Gaza Strip, the other has stopped again.
 
Craig Murray, former head of the maritime section at the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has taken to social media to highlight the illegality of Israel’s action against the Gaza aid flotilla. “The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel’s 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction,” Murray said in a series of bullet points on X.

Murray – who previously headed up British delegations regarding legal aspects of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea – also said an “attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked”. The “possession of vessels and the abduction of crews” at sea can be pursued as a crime in domestic jurisdictions and is not just a crime under international law, he said.

“So the Metropolitan Police and DPP [Director of Public Prosecutions] have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas,” he added. “This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi.”
 
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German plod have arrested 3 Hamas terrorists / members planning attacks in Germany ?
 
motorbiking said:
What’s your take on interception outside territorial seas? I wonder if flying all the Palestinian flags was a home goal, giving Isreal reasonable grounds to intercept in international waters.. hmm
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Complicated. Territorial waters is 12nm, contiguous zone 24nm, exclusive economic zone is 200nm, Israels blockade is 70-80nm and considered legal by some countries, it's been in force since 2007 and never been tested in court.
Could be argued they intercepted them for their own safety.
 
fillyboy said:
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It just goes to show how hamas has a fantastic propaganda dept and how easy it is for them to gain support from ordinary folk. It also shows how sophisticated hamas are with their planning and business dealings. They certainly know how to turn support from the good guys to the bad guys and brainwash the less educated. The Palestinian people are just pawns to them and there to be used, they don't give a dam about them. Seeing stupid people waving flags in support is sickening and shows what suckers they are.
 
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