Israel Briefs US on Plan for 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Rafah | Common Dreams
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"A military invasion in Rafah would be CATASTROPHIC... There can be no more 'evacuations.' There is no safe place to go," said Oxfam, calling for an immediate cease-fire.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15001340

“Such an invasion could lead to horrific massacres and raise scenarios of a second Nakba,” the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights said recently. “After 200 days of horrific genocidal acts in Gaza, the real objectives of the attack are the continuation of the 76-year-long ongoing Nakba and the erasure and genocidal destruction of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Israel is laying the groundwork to fulfill its settler-colonial plan of colonizing Gaza.”

Human rights defenders have warned that Israel may ultimately seek to ethnically cleanse as many Palestinians as possible from Gaza.

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Let’s say that Hamas is 10% of the population - I don’t think it is, but let’s use that number.

    The Palestinians are already on the verge of famine. This will make things worse, and disease is absolutely going to decimate the population.

    Decimation was the Roman practice of killing 1 out of every 10 mutinous/deserter (i.e., guilty of something) soldiers to punish an entire legion while still keeping it operational as a combat unit. Here we have the opposite. It is killing 9 innocents to get to also kill 1 additional (very hypothetically) guilty person.

    This is the saddest “um ackchyually” I have ever written.