Assertion: blockade | /r/HasProperty | legal
Facets:
value: under the international law
type: OTHER
value: according to the not ratified document
type: OTHER
value: to limit palestinian rocket attacks
type: PURPOSE
value: at sea
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Once the blockade is LEGAL, then a belligerent ship may STOP a neutral or enemy merchant vessel and inspect it.
text: Blockades established to starve a civilian populace are illegal, but a reasonable case could be made that China’s agricultural resources and medical capabilities can provide for the civil population even during a blockade.
text: According to the not ratified document San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, 12 June 1994, a blockade is a legal method of warfare at sea but is governed by rules.
text: The basic scheme is that a blockade, to be legal, MUST be effective: the term is a bit hazy, but, essentially, means that the bulk of enemy and neutral merchant shipping must be subject to being stopped.
text: Israel maintains that the blockade is legal and necessary to limit Palestinian rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip on its cities and to prevent Hamas from obtaining other weapons.
text: On the basis that Hamas is the ruling entity of Gaza and Israel is in the midst of an armed struggle against that ruling entity, the blockade is legal,” said Philip Roche, partner in the shipping disputes and risk management team with law firm Norton Rose.
text: Not only that Palmer report failed to address the Gaza security problem (since Israel is using the strip as testing lab for its chemical weapons - http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?arti... ), but it also ignored the fact that under the international law, the blockade is illegal if it targets the civilian population because in that case it is collective punishment.
text: She said: “The blockade they have imposed is illegal.
text: Turkey also established an inquiry into the events, which found, in contrast to the Israeli inquiry, the blockade and the Israeli raid to have been illegal.