You are so easy to prove wrong you know, did you even read what you posted.
Five independent experts reporting to a UN council is not an official UN SANCTIONED COMMISSION and their report was dismissed by the UN out of hand. Want to try again as the reason the report was dissmissed is because the "experts" were known anti semitic Jew haters
So you will only accept a "sanctioned" UN commission?
Here you go!
United Nations A/HRC/15/21
27 September 2010
A blockade must satisfy a number of legal requirements,
including: notification, effective and impartial enforcement and
proportionality.
In particular a blockade is illegal if:
(a) it has the sole purpose of starving the civilian population or denying it other
objects essential for its survival; or
(b) the damage to the civilian population is, or may be expected to be, excessive
in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated from the blockade.
53. In evaluating the evidence submitted to the Mission, including by OCHA oPt, confirming the severe humanitarian situation in Gaza, the destruction of the economy and the prevention of reconstruction (as detailed above), the Mission is satisfied that the blockade was inflicting disproportionate damage upon the civilian population in the Gaza strip and that as such the interception could not be justified and therefore has to be considered illegal.
Kiss my ass, punk!
Did you bother to read your own link.
49. According to applicable international law, unless an exception applies,
a vessel on
the high seas is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of its flag State. Under the international
law of the sea such exceptions are usually limited to suspicion of certain activities (piracy,
the slave trade, unauthorized high seas broadcasting), ships suspected of lacking nationality
(i.e. stateless vessels) and cases where permission to board and inspect have been given
either ad hoc or by treaty (e.g. those related to narcotics smuggling).36 Other exceptions
would include acts of self-defence under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter against
vessels which posed an immediate and overwhelming threat to the boarding State and
lawful acts under LOAC.
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Indeed, the military manuals of many States (both UNCLOS parties and nonparties)
continue to include provisions on the law of naval warfare and blockade.38 Further,
a report of the United Nations Secretary General found that these UNCLOS provisions did
not affect action that was lawful either under the law of self-defence under Article 51 of the
Charter of the United Nations (the
jus ad bellum) or acts justified by the law of armed
conflict (LOAC) once an armed conflict has commenced (the
jus in bello).39 The majority
of scholarly opinion would also support the view that the law of naval warfare continues to
be potentially applicable on the high seas.
Blockade
51. Under the laws of armed conflict, a blockade is the prohibition of all commerce with
a defined enemy coastline. A belligerent who has established a lawful blockade is entitled
to enforce that blockade on the high seas.41 A blockade must satisfy a number of legal
requirements, including: notification, effective and impartial enforcement and
proportionality.
56. Thus, if there is no lawful blockade, the only lawful basis for intercepting the vessel
would be a reasonable suspicion that it:
• was making an effective contribution to the opposing forces’ war effort, such as by
carrying weaponry or was otherwise closely integrated into the enemy war effort
(belligerent right of capture);49 or
• posed an imminent and overwhelming threat to Israel and there was no alternative
but to use force to prevent it (self-defence under Article 51 of the United Nations
Charter).
64. The Mission agrees with the assessment presented in the Goldstone Report as
follows:
Given the specific geopolitical configuration of the Gaza Strip, the powers that Israel
exercises from the borders enable it to determine the conditions of life within the
Gaza Strip. Israel controls the border crossings (including to a significant degree the
Rafah crossing to Egypt, under the terms of the Agreement on Movement and
Access) and decides what and who gets in or out of the Gaza Strip. It also controls
the territorial sea adjacent to the Gaza Strip and has declared a virtual blockade and
limits to the fishing zone, thereby regulating economic activity in that zone. It also
keeps complete control of the airspace of the Gaza Strip, inter alia, through
continuous surveillance by aircraft and unmanned aviation vehicles (UAVs) or
drones. It makes military incursions and from time to time hit
targets within the
Gaza Strip. No-go areas are declared within the Gaza Strip near the border where
Israeli settlements used to be and enforced by the Israeli armed forces. Furthermore,
Israel regulates the local monetary market based on the Israeli currency (the new
sheqel) and controls taxes and custom duties.53
The Mission is satisfied that these circumstances continued to prevail at the time of the
incident under investigation.