I wonder what hamas procedures are for detainment and a trial.
Does Hamas have due process?
Moo
Hamas are a proscribed terrorist organisation and as such I expect they are pretty free to employ whatever rules of engagement fits the agenda at the time.
Israel is a free democratic state which instead of playing the terrorist is expected to be who they are and operate in accordance with the rule of law, their own as well as international.
The Gaza strip is an enclave which is described in the Cambridge dictionary as "...a
part of a
country that is
surrounded by another
country, or a
group of
people who are different from the
people living in the
surrounding area:"
In the starving Gaza enclave even fresh fish is an issue.
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The construction of the seaport has been a major objective of successive authorities in Palestine. It took six years, from the start of the Oslo Accord process in September 1993,until September 1999, for Israel to consent to allow the Palestinian Authority (PA) to begin construction of a Gaza deep sea port and, even then, the port was not to be functional until there had been an agreement with Israel on a joint protocol regarding its operation. Construction of a port had begun before the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September2000, with costs being met by Donor States. However, in October 2000 the Israeli air force destroyed both the sea port and Gaza's existing airport near Rafah in response to the killing of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah. In 2001, the Dutch-French consortium scrapped plans to build a port in the Gaza Strip, citing security problems in the area, which would have been financed by The Hague, Paris and the European Investment Bank. In 2005, in a climate of improving ties following the death of Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, Israeli approval was given for the construction of the port, although Israel would retain control of territorial waters offshore. The port is part of a package of Israeli gestures that includes the gradual handover of West Bank cities to Palestinian forces, and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. However, there has been no significant progress and the project remains on hold.
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Israeli bombs
rain down on Gaza once more. The surprise, unprecedented attack by Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades has been met with indiscriminate Israeli aggression, forcing everyone in the besieged enclave to seek shelter whilst awaiting their fate.
At the time of writing, the Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gollant, has ordered a
"complete siege" of the Gaza strip: "no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed."
In many ways, however, this is just a more explicit extension of the daily realities Gazans have faced over the last 16 years under Israeli blockade, with Gaza's fishermen are public enemy number one.
Israel restricts the fishing border in Gaza to just six miles and is patrolled by Israeli ships and naval commandos who injure and kill anyone who crosses the border. This is in flagrant violation of the
Oslo Accords - signed between Israel and the PLO in the 1990s - that grants Gaza's fishermen to venture up to 20 nautical miles from the shore to fish.
Israel's 16-year blockade of the Gaza Strip has turned the fishing industry in Gaza into a tool for collective Palestinian punishment. Fishermen are regularly killed at sea, with sustained Israeli restrictions suffocating a symbol of Gazan identity.
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