The Israeli rights group B’Tselem said in a press release on Tuesday that Israel was carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign in northern Gaza and called on the world to stop it.
“The magnitude of the crimes Israel is currently committing in the northern Gaza Strip in its campaign to empty it of however many residents are left is impossible to describe, not just because hundreds of thousands of people enduring starvation, disease without access to medical care and incessant bombardments and gunfire defies comprehension, but because Israel has cut them off from the world,” the group said.
Israel began its renewed assault on northern Gaza at the beginning of the month and ordered the estimated 300,000 to 400,000 Palestinian civilians living in the area to head south. “Ever since Israel’s current operation in the northern Gaza Strip began on 5 October, the area has been under a near complete siege, relentlessly pummeled by the military,” B’Tselem said.
Gaza’s government media office said Wednesday that at least 770 Palestinians have been killed in northern Gaza in 19 days, dozens more are missing, and over 200 have been “kidnapped” by Israeli forces. According to B’Tselem’s press release, over 50,000 Palestinians have been forced out of their homes.
The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it had forced at least 20,000 Palestinians out of Jabalia, where the assault has been focused, and arrested more than 150.
Israel is attempting to carry out an ethnic cleansing campaign known as the “general’s plan,” which calls for a mass evacuation of civilians and the killing of anyone who stays behind, whether by military action or a starvation blockade.
B’Tselem said, “Other than in the most exceptional cases, Israel does not allow humanitarian aid or emergency crews in, taking advantage of the fact that global attention has been diverted to irreversibly change reality on the ground.”
The rights group said Israel was “committing some of the gravest crimes under the laws of war” and called on the world to take action. “Without immediate, decisive action from the international community, without using every tool available – political, legal, economic – the mass killings in the northern Gaza Strip will continue, and the suffering of its besieged civilians will grow,” B’Tselem said.
The only country with the power to stop Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza is the US since it supplies Israel with most of its weapons. A senior Israeli Air Force officer recently acknowledged that without US support, Israel couldn’t sustain its military operations in Gaza for more than a few months.
On October 14, the Biden administration sent a letter to Israeli officials that gave them 30 days to allow more aid into Gaza, a deadline that falls after the November 5 presidential election. The letter implies that if the US demands aren’t met, the US might consider enforcing foreign assistance laws, but it doesn’t explicitly say the US would cut off weapons shipments. The State Department also declined to say if there would be any consequences for Israel.
Congressman Thomas Massie, Profile in Courage: https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1849165384571560052?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Can we all agree to stop using "ethnic cleansing" as a euphemism for genocide? Recall that this "polite" turn of phrase dates back to the genocide(s) of the late last century in the Balkans. Its coinage is attributionally murky, and its usages were solely geo-political. Let's get back to the basic and obvious: mass-murdering of a demographically/geographically discrete population is–in a word–genocide.
Genocide is one of the methods of ethnic cleansing. The other is the deportation, or, maybe, better to call it the chasing away a certain ethnic group from a particular territory.
So, what happens in Gaza, could be described in both terms: genocide and ethnic cleansing.
That's also genocide, mind you, and it's hardly ever done without many massacres and abuses. A clear example is the Armenian Genocide.
Genocide means extermination. It is not just massacres and abuses.
Genocide means the intentional destruction of a nation/ethnicity by any means and in any numbers. The genocidal intent is very clear and the actual mass murdering is happening every day in growing and more horrible manner: it’s genocide by bombs, bullets, famine and disease, it’s genocide by destruction of homes and hospitals, it’s genocide no matter how you look at it. It’s Auschwitz 2.0!!!
I do agree that what happens in Gaza is genocide.
Herding people with 2,000 bombs.
Oct 7 was ethnic cleansing.
We don't know how exactly Oct 7 attack was organized but it was used by Zionists as pretext for genocide of Gaza people. As we remember, Israeli militaries were very slow to react to that attack. Then they started kill people indiscriminately including Israeli civilians. Then they lied about "beheaded babies" etc. Then they started a genocide war against Palestinian civilians who had nothing to do with Oct 7 attack. It is highly likely that Oct 7 attack was organized by Zionists.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! After a year, you are still vomiting up that trope???
(the only one in this discussion to agree with you is Christian Vila, another denier of the evil of Israel)
It is quite horrible, and yet when one tries to explain how we came to this situation, Antiwar censorship deletes the comments.
I adore how the Comment replying to yours, is deleted. Like, RIGHT BELOW what you said. Meme-worthy !
Apartheid Israel is far worse than South Africa ever was.
By orders of magnitude. And, South Africa never had 100 nukes to threaten the neighbors with.
President Kennedy was right.
Tell us something we haven't already figured out over the last year.
Mentioning that the only country that can stop Israel is the US is both inaccurate and ridiculously irrelevant, since "that ain't gonna happen." Other countries (Turkey, Russia, China) could stop Israel easily, but they don't want to get into WWIII with the US.
It's up to the Axis of Resistance (including Iran.) Period. So stop asking for the US to do it.
If Turkey were to intervene and then the US attacked them could they call for assistance from NATO under Article 5?
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
There's some indication Turkey will join BRICS and leave NATO. Problem solved.
That's be quite the NATexit. Doesn't Turkey have a remarkably large army ? I seem to recall their joining NATO as a "wow, look how many soldiers we added !" moment when it happened.
Turkey won't leave NATO and won't be accepted (most likely) within BRICS. Iran at the very least would veto the latter, as they're very much at odds in regards to Armenia and Azerbaijan.
In any case Erdogan's Turkey does not just feel comfortable under NATO umbrella, which protects Turkey, but has also been actively collaborating with Israel for the past decade: weakening the anti-Zionist bastion that is Syria and also helping to keep Iraq weak, stealing Kurdish oil with the help of the Barzani mafia and selling it to Zionistan, and most recently, just last year, cooperating both with Azerbaijan in the last part of the Armenian Genocide.
Just because Erdogan is an Islamist, that doesn't make him enemy of Israel or of NATO. And both Russia and the USA are OK with that.
They’re definitely interested in joining BRICS, but I doubt they’d leave NATO. BRICS is an economic and diplomatic association, not military. NATO is military, not economic (and pretty much the opposite of diplomatic!)
Turkey has put out feelers to BRICS.
Article 5 is a mere theoretical framework. NATO didn't defend Turkey when the Mavi Marmara (sovereign territory in international waters north of the Tropic) was attacked by Israel, even if Turkey requested it. Everybody knows it's up for member states to decide to react or not to a suppossed art. 5 violation.
Anyway, internal NATO wars are not affected by mutual defense NATO provisions. Greece and Turkey, for example, could go into war and art. 5 could not be called upon.
As horrific as this all is and indeed, it is… Israel is truly lost and they need our guidance but mostly they need the heavenly father’s guidance, to find the true path to the light, love and divine wisdom…
They need to be carpet bombed into oblivion.
There are some days I do agree with you, yet, that will not solve problem with hearts and minds involved…
Sorry Donna. I've lost it. To plagiarize Don McClean a bit, I'm tired of seeing Satan (Netanyahu) smiling with delight.
“Dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight!”
It won't solve problem with hearts and minds INTACT, is what you mean ?
meanwhile On Lebanese Border….
”…Running like cowards and crying at the same time۔ …” (video)
https://x.com/AsadViews/status/1848853772224893223
https://x.com/i/status/1849449804159496629
This scene has been playing out every single day in Gaza for over a year now. The Israelis are determined to make the civilians pay for the resistance of Hamas militants. They treat the Palestinian people like the German Einsatzgruppen treated Jews in Ukraine or Lithuania.
I live in central Canada. Most people I know won't even mention what's going on in Gaza, Ukraine, etc.
It still shocks me how conditioned people are to veer away from geopolitical issues
Canadians focus on ice hocky.
Americans focus on MLB and NFL.
Most of the citizens of both countries could give a sh*t about babies brains being blown out of their head, children shot in the torso and head, Palestinians seeking aid bombed by the IDF. hospitals, schools bombed.
They are condition to see all Araba as terrorists, Israel the brave little (nuclear) country fighting off the world.
Same indoctrination of Israelis is conducted in their schools. Miko Peled wrote of it in his book, "The General's Son, The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine". A remarkable book.
https://sonar21.com/west-ignores-brics-and-ukrainian-retreats-while-israel-struggles-with-resilient-hezbollah/
"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is running rampant among the political elite and Deep State. The pucker factor is so great that if an enterprising person, armed with a bag of coal, could skip through the newsrooms shoving coal up the asses of these journalists, that person would have diamonds by the end of the day. The pressure is that great."
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: relative to the protection of civilian persons in the time of war states: "The occupying power (IDF) shall not deport or transfer part of its own population into the territories it occupies."