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RE: Why are they allowed to take unilateral action when all other members stand put?

Remember Flotilla I in May 2010?

The flotilla, was by the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief.

It was said to be carrying humanitarian aid and construction materials, with the intention of breaking the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Shayetet 13 naval commandos boarded the ships from speedboats and helicopters in order to force the ships to the Israeli port of Ashdod. On the Turkish ship MV Mavi Marmara, according to Israel’s own report, the Israeli Navy faced resistance from about 40 of the 590 passengers, including IHH activists – described in an Israeli report as a separate “hardcore group” – who were said to be armed with iron bars and knives.

During the struggle, nine activists were killed including eight Turkish nationals and one Turkish American, and many were wounded.

The five other ships in the flotilla employed passive resistance, which was suppressed without major incident, although many of the passengers on board all ships were beaten, some ending up with broken bones. The ships were towed to Israel, where all passengers were detained and deported.

NATO said nothing about that...

Of course in the end, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC, composed of among others, Arab countries) released its report on the Israeli boarding and seizure of the vessels. The report found that the Israeli blockade of Gaza is illegal, and therefore, the boarding and seizure of the vessels was illegal, that the detention of the passengers was illegal, that the confiscation of the passengers’ possessions was illegal and there was willful killing on the part of the Israeli commandos.

As usual, it’s Israel’s fault.

“The report found that the Israeli blockade of Gaza is illegal, and therefore, the boarding and seizure of the vessels was illegal, that the detention of the passengers was illegal, that the confiscation of the passengers’ possessions was illegal and there was willful killing on the part of the Israeli commandos.”

If it is illegal to block access to Gaza, it could then be assumed that Gaza is its own country? And if that is the case then should it be safe to assume that Gaza declared war on Israel.