{"id":274511,"date":"2023-10-15T07:12:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T07:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274511"},"modified":"2023-10-17T06:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T06:51:03","slug":"israel-may-be-on-verge-of-mass-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-in-gaza-un-expert-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274511","title":{"rendered":"Israel may be on verge of \u2018mass ethnic cleansing\u2019 of Palestinians in Gaza, UN expert warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graeme Massie \u2013 The Independent Oct 14, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israel may be on the verge of a \u201cmass ethnic cleansing\u201d of Palestinians<\/a> in Gaza<\/a> in the wake of the bloody Hamas<\/a> attack, a United Nations<\/a> expert has warned.<\/p>\n

Israeli officials have already ordered an estimated 1.1 million people living in north Gaza to leave their homes and move south ahead of an expected ground invasion by their forces massed at the border.<\/p>\n

The IDF has since entered Gaza to carry out limited operations in search of more than 100 civilians and soldiers captured by Hamas during the brutal and unexpected 7 October attacks, which killed more than 1,300.<\/p>\n

Now Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territory, has warned that Palestinians may be facing another \u201cNakba\u201d, or forced expulsion from their land.<\/p>\n

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The Nakba, 1948.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Nakba \u2014 or \u201ccatastrophe\u201d in Arabic \u2014 refers to the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the territory during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a grave danger that what we are witnessing may be a repeat of the 1948 Nakba, and the 1967 Naksa, yet on a larger scale. The international community must do everything to stop this from happening again,\u201d said Ms Albanese in a statement on Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n

And she added:\u00a0 \u201cIsrael has already carried out mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under the fog of war.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, in the name of self-defence, Israel is seeking to justify what would amount to ethnic cleansing.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least 1,300 people were killed in the Hamas terror attacks on 7 October, including 260 people\u00a0at a music festival near kibbutz Re\u2019im.<\/p>\n

More than 2,000 people have been killed in Hamas-controlled Gaza since Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Following the Hamas attacks, Israel announced a \u201ccomplete siege\u201d on the enclave, with electricity, water and medical supplies now in desperately short supply.<\/p>\n

And on Saturday Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told troops in southern Israel that \u201cThe next stage is coming\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Director of Communications at UNRWA, Juliette Touma, says that 1 million people have already been displaced following the Israeli air strikes.<\/p>\n

Ms Albanese, an Italian human rights lawyer and academic, in her statement, claimed that<\/a> \u201ccontinued military operations by Israel have gone well beyond the limits of international law\u201d and urged the international community to mediate a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe international community must stop these egregious violations of international law now, before tragic history is repeated. Time is of the essence. Palestinians and Israelis both deserve to live in peace, equality of rights, dignity and freedom,\u201d Ms Albanese said.<\/p>\n

And she added: \u201cThe international community has the responsibility to prevent and protect populations from atrocity crimes. Accountability for international crimes committed by Israeli occupation forces and Hamas must also be immediately pursued.\u201d<\/p>\n

Special Rapporteurs are supposed to be independent experts who produce reports for UN member states. Ms Albanese became the first woman to hold the position upon her appointment in May 2022.<\/p>\n

The IDF did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1948 saw the foundation of the Jewish state and forcible displacement of millions Palestinians upon whose land the state of Israel was founded. To Palestinians this is known as the Nakba, or Catastrophe, and a UN official warns that we may be seeing a replay as Israel orders 1.1 million to leave Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":274513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274515,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274511\/revisions\/274515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}