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This isn't even a disputed issue, there are clear laws that allow them to be captured or even sunk, international waters or not.
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Actually the whole point is that it is not a clear issue and many questions remain on which of the laws Israel claims it used and was allowed to use and which laws it really was allowed to use.
So far most of Israels claims of legitimacy in their action have been full of holes, which when it comes to question of legality doesn't make their claims any good.
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Blockade runners are not civilians by definition.
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That depends on the legal status of the blockade(which doesn't look good), the nature of the material in question(which also doesn't look good.
So while in essence what you say could be valid, when it comes down to the actual details on which it is conditional it falls apart very rapidly.
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Blockades have been standard military operations for hundreds of years and there is plenty of legal precedent floating around.
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During those hundreds of years, the laws regarding blockades have changed dozens of times, the only relevant legal precedents are those set in relation to how the law now stands.
Seriously, we have had people citing Napoleonic examples even though those blockade laws went out the window in 1826