Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor calls for putting pressure on Israel to stop the crime of forced displacement against Palestinians

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to stop the crime of forced displacement against the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip, and to enable hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people from Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip to return to their areas of residence.

 “We have monitored the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians from the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip since the Israeli occupation issued the last forced displacement orders on May the 6th, and forced the displacement is still continuing amid very difficult circumstances.” The monitor said in a statement on Sunday

The statement added: “Hundreds of thousands of displaced people were forced to take refuge in the streets, lands and seashore west of Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah, in confined geographical areas in which almost no services or necessities of life are available”.

The monitor noted that about 150,000 Palestinians had previously been displaced out of fear and force from Rafah. Over the weeks that preceded the forced displacement orders due to the occupation’s threats to invade the city.

It indicated that about 70 percent of the homes and buildings of the forcibly displaced were destroyed, and that returning to them and residing next to them remains a right and a duty that must be accomplished immediately, with the international community’s commitment to urgently providing temporary residence needs and basic life requirements

The monitor warned that denying the right of the displaced to return and keeping hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced without ensuring their return means an occupation decision to impose a new Nakba on the Palestinians to complete the crime of genocide.

Rawaa Ghanam