Howdy Gaza resident;
An economic blockade imposed on an unoccupied, hostile entity during a period of armed conflict is not considered to be "collective punishment" in International Humanitarian Law. In fact, retorsions in general aren`t either. The UN imposes economic sanctions on rogue states all of the time in an attempt to force them to comply with international law, but nobody claims that the UN is committing a war crime in doing so except for the sanctioned country.
As long as the imposing power of the blockade does not block or unduly delay sufficient humanitarian aid to keep the civilian population above a bare-subsistence level, then it is not illegal. However, the imposing power is under no obligation to provide or allow humanitarian shipments of supplies if renewed enemy action endangers those shipments and the lives of those delivering them.
If you want the blockade to be relaxed, then stop shooting rockets and mortar rounds into Israel. Comprende? Savvy? Capice? |
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