I'll take a look at the articles once I'm off work. I appreciate the discussion and your responses. Prior to reading them, though, it looks like it is talking about armed conflict, which is kinda the point I was making. Yemen (/the Houthis) have the right to blockade, but it is an act of war/falls in the realm of armed conflict. Would you say that is accurate?

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

It's definitely predicated on some presence of violent conflict. The whole act of war framing has been made really squishy post WW2. Yemen also isn't mincing words about it, this is because they consider Israel to be a belligerent in an armed conflict that they have chosen to participate in as an ally of Palestinian people. Since so much of the world doesn't recognize Palestine as a nation-state, definitions get even harder here.

Enjoy the reading.