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Law and the Israeli Attack on the Humanitarian Aid Flotilla to Gaza

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Daoud L. Khairallah*
Affiliation:
Georgetown University Law Center; of counsel, White & Case LLP

Abstract

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Type
International Legal Implications of Israel’s Attack on the Gaza Aid Flotilla
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2011

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References

1 U.N. Human Rights Council, Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories: Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, U.N. Doc. A/HRC/12/48 (Sept. 25, 2009), available at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-48.pdf [hereinafter Goldstone Report].

2 U.N. Human Rights Council, Report of the International Fact-Finding Mission to Investigate Violations of International Law, Including International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law, Resulting from the Israeli Attacks on the Flotilla of Ships Carrying Humanitarian Assistance, U.N. Doc. A/HRC/15/21 (Sept. 27, 2010), available at http://www2.ohchr.org/englishÆodiesyhrcouncil/docs/15session/A.HRC.15.21_en.PDF.

3 The Report of the Independent Committee to Follow Up the Implementation of the Mission Report’s Recommendations (in Arabic), in addition to UN Security Council Resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), identifies 36 resolutions of the Security Council and 15 of the General Assembly confirming that the land that has come under Israeli control after the 1967 war is occupied territory.

4 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, para. 139 (July 9, 2004), available at http://www.ICJ-cij.org/docket/files/131/1671.pdf.

5 U.N. Human Rights Council, Report of the International Fact-Finding Mission to Investigate Violations of International Law, supra note 2, para. 30.

6 Id.,

7 Id., para. 54.

8 U.N. Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967, Richard Falk, para. 34, U.N. Doe. A/HRC/13/53 (June 7, 2010).

9 Int’l Comm. of the Red Cross (ICRC), Gaza Closure: Not another Year!, ICRC News Release 10/103 (June 14, 2010), available at http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/update/palestine-update-140610.htm.

10 See Mission Report, supra note 1, para. 165.

11 Id., para. 169.

12 Id., para. 170.

13 Id., para. 172.

14 Id.

15 Id., para. 176.

16 Id.,, paras. 178-80.

17 Id., para. 181.

18 Id., para. 182.

19 Id., paras. 183-211.