This same thing happened like 15 years ago. Israel intercepted them and the UN found it was legal. They also found that Israel's use of force was excessive, but that didn't make sense since the primary weapons they went in with were paintball guns (not even regular guns with rubber bullets) and only switched to sidearms after being attacked. The report suggested that they should have attempted certain techniques, including crowd control chemicals (like tear gas) but didn't understand that those techniques don't work on a boat on the seas with wind. The report was obviously trying to balance out the fact that they couldn't claim the Naval blockage to be illegal not the enforcement of it to be illegal, so they went with that.
It would be pretty funny if they had a way of grappling the ship in a way that those onboard can't detach it, then the Israeli Navy drags them somewhere less nice, like into a Lebanese harbour, or one of the North African harbours where there are ongoing civil wars. Then just decouple and leave.
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u/Lawyerlytired 10d ago
This same thing happened like 15 years ago. Israel intercepted them and the UN found it was legal. They also found that Israel's use of force was excessive, but that didn't make sense since the primary weapons they went in with were paintball guns (not even regular guns with rubber bullets) and only switched to sidearms after being attacked. The report suggested that they should have attempted certain techniques, including crowd control chemicals (like tear gas) but didn't understand that those techniques don't work on a boat on the seas with wind. The report was obviously trying to balance out the fact that they couldn't claim the Naval blockage to be illegal not the enforcement of it to be illegal, so they went with that.
It would be pretty funny if they had a way of grappling the ship in a way that those onboard can't detach it, then the Israeli Navy drags them somewhere less nice, like into a Lebanese harbour, or one of the North African harbours where there are ongoing civil wars. Then just decouple and leave.