This might shed a little lite on what Israel is doing to Gaza!

[Shaktimaan]

16. That's funny.

But when international law says very clearly that occupation is defined by having control of a territory from outside, from a government outside, that's precisely what we have in Gaza.

Rather than prove your point, what your quote actually does here is invalidate the credibility of your source. You see, international law doesn't say anything like that. Occupation is only in effect in areas that are directly under the control of the enemy military. Control over airspace and waterways does not imply that all of Gaza is occupied territory. There's no question that the main authority in Gaza is Hamas.

The actual accepted definition of occupied territory is:

Article 42 of the 1907 Hague Regulations (HR) states that a " territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised. "