Does Israel selectively use International Law to justify its illegal actions?

Sari Bashi, the director of Gisha: The Legal Center for the Freedom of Movement in Israel, argued that Israel is using international law selectively.

"Israel is systematically picking the parts of international law that give it control and ignoring the parts of international law that give it responsibility," she told The Media Line. "According to international law, Israel is controlling the shores of Gaza and other borders of Gaza under the framework of occupation. Many of those elements of control were relinquished in 2005 with the disengagement, but Israel continues to control enough elements of life in the Gaza strip to impose obligations under the law of occupation."

"International law recognizes the fact of control but requires that the responsibility to exercise such control be commensurate with the rights and needs of civilians in Gaza," Bashi continued. "The problem from an international law perspective is not that Israel is preventing ships from entering Gaza, because Israel can determine the route into Gaza and can check shipments and persons. The problem is in the end you have to let people and goods go in and out."

"For the last the years Israel has blocked all but a trickle of humanitarian goods from entering Gaza in what they call economic warfare designed to dismantle the economy," she said. "We call that collective punishment because civilians are being punished for acts they didn't commit."

Posted in saree designs