The Palestinian ambassador to the UK has claimed that Israel wants to expel his compatriots from the Gaza Strip.
Husam Zomlot said that the IDF's current exploits in Gaza constitute a replay of the 1948 'Nakba', when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced from their homes in the newly-formed state of Israel.It comes after Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would have "overall security responsibility" in Gaza for an indefinite period after its war with Hamas.
But Mr Zomlot said that really "this is a plan to move people from the north to the south until comes a moment they push whatever is left in the south towards the Sinai desert. "This is a replay of 1948, the Nakba. They have the playbook, we have the memory. We know what they did then and what they’re doing now."Mr Netanyahu, asked who should "govern” Gaza after the end of the conflict, said: "Those who don’t want to continue the way of Hamas.
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