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Israel’s forced displacement in Gaza amounts to war crime: HRW
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/14/israels-forced-displacement-in-gaza-amounts-to-war-crime-hrw
Israeli authorities have caused massive and deliberate forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, in what amounts to a war crime, a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found.
The international human rights organisation analysed satellite imagery, Israeli forced evacuation orders and statements by senior Israeli officials to show that authorities in Israel are deliberately and permanently making returning to large areas of Gaza effectively impossible for the Palestinian population.
“Israeli forces have destroyed the majority of Gaza’s water, sanitation, communications, energy and transport infrastructure as well as its schools and hospitals” and “systematically razed orchards, fields and greenhouses”, report author Nadia Hardman told journalists in a news conference in advance of the report’s release on Thursday.
A satellite image shows an area the Israeli military has completely razed to cut the Gaza Strip in two and has called the ‘Netzarim Corridor’
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Several Israeli officials have claimed that military “buffer zones” between Gaza and Israel are necessary so that residents in southern Israel can return to their homes without fearing another attack such as the one led by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Israel’s Minister of Agriculture Avi Dichter told reporters on October 19, 2023, that the plan was to create a “margin” around the Gaza Strip that “will be a fire zone. And no matter who you are, you will never be able to come close to the Israeli border”.
The Human Rights Watch report said that the razing and destruction of the vast majority of Palestinian homes, fields, orchards, wooded areas and infrastructure in these so-called “buffer zones” was “one of the clearest examples of forcible transfer in Gaza”.
Notably, the rights group said that to qualify as a war crime, the forcible transfer of a population must be carried out intentionally. The report’s authors provided almost two dozen statements from senior Israeli ministers supporting the forcible transfer of Palestinians.
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We need to seize more lands in Gaza to punish Hamas: Israeli minister
Orit Strock, Israel’s settlement minister, has told Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that she advised the government that Israel needs “to seize more lands in Gaza so Hamas understands that there is a price they are not willing to pay”.
“I will not agree to the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza, and I will leave the government if we exit the Philadelphi Corridor,” she was quoted as saying.
Strock also said Israel must annex the occupied West Bank, claiming that “the national right to the land there should belong only to the people of Israel.
“Palestinians can stay in Judea and Samaria, and we must grant them their full rights as humans, but they will not be able to vote in [Israeli parliament] Knesset elections,” she said, referring to the West Bank with the territory’s biblical name.
Strock dismissed the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying it was not a solution “but a disaster”.
