When the Israeli army declared a total blockade of Gaza, the United Nations and international organizations except Western countries said it was a war crime. The inhumane demand for the “evacuation” of a million people gave the attack the contours of ethnic cleansing
The Israeli army’s warning to the Palestinians that they have 24 hours to leave the northern part of Gaza, published on Friday, clearly carried the meaning of one of the most sinister terms that has entered most of the world’s languages – the Nakba.
Nakba, translated as disaster, is a term used to describe the destruction of Palestinian society, the expulsion and occupation that began in 1948 and has basically never stopped.
In the early hours of Friday morning, the Israeli army announced that more than a million residents of northern Gaza have 24 hours to leave the area and move to the southern part of the destroyed and besieged territory. Cynically, the Israeli army said that it was trying to protect Palestinian civilians in this way, ignoring the reality that their attacks had already turned Gaza into, as the United Nations described it, “hell”.
It is hard to think that anyone with a basic education, especially the military officers and politicians of Israel, is not aware that it is impossible to move a million people from an already destroyed area to another equally destroyed area in 24 hours.
Both local authorities in Gaza and international organizations operating in the area said that evacuation is not possible, and the World Health Organization clearly stated that the evacuation order is a death sentence for patients in hospitals in the north of Gaza.
Apart from the fact that the evacuation message is impossible, it is also an indication that the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, not only has not been in control of the situation since October 7th, but that apart from vengeful anger, his government has no idea how to proceed other than committing mass crimes and de facto ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. The Prime Minister of Palestine, Mohammed Shtayyeh, said that genocide is currently taking place in Gaza, and the United Nations and international humanitarian organizations have warned that war crimes are being committed against the residents of Gaza.
Netanyahu included the most radical right-wing Israeli parties in his government, and confident of his own power, he constantly implemented a policy of additional pressure on the Palestinians, expanding settlements in the West Bank and almost making any idea of a Palestinian state meaningless.
Even Israeli analysts and media warned that the pressure on the Palestinians had become unbearable, and after the Hamas attack in which hundreds of Israeli civilians were killed, the respected Hareetz singled out Netanyahu as the main culprit.
When the histories of Israel are written in the 21st century, Benjamin Netanyahu’s name and surname will occupy a significant place because it was his policies that shaped Israeli-Palestinian relations, but his entire political legacy, which is largely reduced to the suppression of Palestinian rights, is after the seventh of October was in danger of being reduced to the military and intelligence disaster that occurred that morning.
The almost unimaginable casualties among Israeli civilians as well as soldiers and the short-term loss of control over military bases and places within the “green line” threatened to be what would be the shortest description of Netanyahu’s rule over Israel.
Desperate for his political legacy and emboldened both by the right-wing in the government and blank support of the US and other Western countries for revenge, Netanyahu decided through the evacuation order that he was ready to carry out the ethnic cleansing of Gaza in order to save his own political legacy.
There should be no doubt that a Machiavellian like Netanyahu will not be stopped by any moral principles, and with the support of the West, the question is whether anyone can stop him, Klix.ba reports.
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