‘I will not move. I will be killed in my house with my family,’ one mother told me. Look to history and the omens are grim, says author and former Middle East correspondent Sarah Helm
‘Driving one million people south will cause ever more horror.’ Palestinians flee Gaza City on Friday following the Israeli army’s warning to leave and move south.‘Driving one million people south will cause ever more horror.’ Palestinians flee Gaza City on Friday following the Israeli army’s warning to leave and move south.‘I will not move. I will be killed in my house with my family,’ one mother told me.
With the green light from Israel’s allies, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Friday that 1.1 million Gazans were to be “evacuated” from the north to the south of Gaza. Netanyahu wants us to believe his prime concern is to keep civilians out of danger during the expected ground invasion from the north, which is presumably how he plans to finally “crush” Hamas.
In other words, should the west and other influential actors not move to halt this “evacuation”, a process of ethnic cleansing could be under way, bringing with it the risks of a regional conflagration.
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