Euro-Mediterranean Monitor: The occupation ups the crime of forced displacement in Gaza
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor warned that the Israeli occupation is escalating the crime of forced displacement and planning to empty Gaza City of its people forcefully and by force of arms as part of the ongoing crime of genocide in Gaza Strip which started October the 7th.
The Observatory said in a statement that it received testimonies documenting that the occupation forces made Palestinian families, the majority of whom were women and children, move from Gaza last Wednesday and Thursday.
It pointed out that the observatory’s preliminary statistics indicate that one million and 955 thousand Palestinians have been displaced from their areas of residence in the Gaza Strip, adding that the city of Rafah has become the main refuge for the displaced, where more than a million Palestinians live.
The Observatory said: “Israel insists on carrying out forced displacement of civilians in the Gaza Strip, and the most dangerous aspect is that it gives itself a license to target those who refuse the evacuation order through indiscriminate bombing of homes and civilian facilities or field raids to force them to be displaced.”
It stressed that the laws of war prohibit, under any justification, the deliberate targeting of civilians and considers their forced displacement a grave violation against humanity.
Rawaa Ghanam