Richard Falk (UN Rapporteur for Palestine) http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/06/gaza-aid-convoy-killings-those-responsible-must-be-held-criminally-accountable/

“This peaceful humanitarian initiative by citizens from 50 countries is an  urgent response to the continuation of an unlawful blockade that has been maintained for almost three years causing great physical and mental harm to the whole of the 1.5 million people entrapped within Gaza,” the UN independent expert said.

“Such a massive form of collective punishment is a crime against humanity, as well as a gross violation of the prohibition on collective punishment in Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.”

As Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, familiar  with the suffering of the people of Gaza, I find this latest instance of Israeli military lawlessness to create a situation of regional and global emergency. Unless prompt and decisive action is taken to challenge the Israeli approach to Gaza all of us will be complicit in criminal policies that are challenging the survival of an entire beleaguered community.”