"Under international law Israel is within its rights to establish a maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip, since Gaza is ruled by Hamas, a hostile terrorist entity that has launched missiles into Israel targeting and killing civilians, and has also infiltrated and attempted to infiltrate into Israel in order to carry out attacks. There is therefore a state of armed conflict between Hamas-ruled Gaza and the State of Israelf, and in such a situation Israel is permitted, with certain limitations, to blockade the territory of its adversary.
Israel is actually not fully exercising its blockade rights, since it is allowing inspected food, fuel and other essential materials from Israel into Gaza via trucks. However, Israel has announced that ships attempting to transport supposedly humanitarian supplies into Gaza would have to first dock in Israel for the supplies to be inspected, after which legitimate humanitarian supplies would be trucked into Gaza."
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