On Dec 31, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote: > On 1 Jan 2009, at 01:19, Stefano Mori wrote: >> IOW, this ship could have transported the supplies in if they >> followed >> proper procedure. > > Thanks. That's the sort of thing we needed.
FWIW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories In 2000 the Israeli government started to construct the Israeli West Bank barrier, separating Israel and several Jewish settlements, as well as a significant number of Palestinians, from the remainder of the West Bank. In 2004, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion stating that the barrier violates international law. [4] In a related case the Israeli Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, stated that Israel has been holding the areas of Judea and Samaria in belligerent occupation, since 1967. The court also held that the normative provisions of public international law regarding belligerent occupation are applicable. The Regulations Concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land, The Hague of 1907 and the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949 were both cited.[5] In 2005, Israel legislated that all of the Jewish residents in the Gaza Strip and in four settlements in the northern West Bank as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan would have to abandon their homes. Some settlers resisted the order, and were forcibly removed by the IDF. In 2006, following the Hezbollah assault and killing of two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, from an army base in the north of Israel, Israel fired airstrikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, and bombed Beirut International Airport. As a response, 1,300 Qassam rockets were fired into Israeli territories, and the IDF once again took control over the northern area of Gaza. The operation has not resulted in Gilad Shalit's safe return, or in ceasing of Qassam launches. During the operation, civilians have been killed and Gaza's infrastructure has been badly damaged. A smaller number of Israelis on the Israeli side of the Green Line suffered loss of life, injury or property damage due to the Palestinian rockets. The IDF claims to have killed many militants during the operation. In 2007, after some serious clashes between Palestinian factions in Gaza, Israel was attacked by rockets aimed at the Israeli city of Sederot and other border towns near the Gaza strip. These attacks have killed at least two people on the Israeli side and many more in the Gaza strip from retaliatory Israeli strikes. Israel has threatened to send ground troops into the Strip if the rocket barrages do not cease, while Hamas has threatened to extend the range of the current attacks if the Israeli army enters the Strip. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
