The UN has warned that the flight of people from the northern part of Gaza to the south will create “devastating humanitarian consequences” and will “transform what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation.”
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"Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans—and potentially expel them altogether into Egypt—is yet another chapter in the Nakba, in which an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes during the 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel."
Raz Segal: "But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians."
Raz Segal: "Under international law, the crime of genocide is defined by “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”... In its murderous attack on Gaza, Israel has loudly proclaimed this intent."
"Leaders in the West reinforced Israel's racist rhetoric by describing Hamas’s mass murder of Israeli civilians—a war crime under intern'l law... as “an act of sheer evil,” in the words of Biden, or as a move that reflected an “ancient evil,” in the terminology of von der Leyen"
Raz Segal: "dehumanizing language is calculated to justify the wide scale destruction of Palestinian lives; the assertion of “evil,” in its absolutism, elides distinctions between Hamas militants and Gazan civilians, and occludes the broader context of colonization & occupation"
Israel is perpetrating three out of five acts of the UN genocide convention: “1. Killing members of the group. 2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. 3. Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group physical destruction"
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