Netanyahu’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza Is on Display for All to See

November 10, 2024

Editorial

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Tags: general's plan, moral and ethical army, northern gaza cleansed space, political leadership directives, War of rebirth

A boy rests as displaced Palestinians flee Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, through the main Salah al-Din road on the outskirts of Gaza City

Haaretz Editorial Nov 10, 2024

The Israeli military is conducting an ethnic cleansing operation in the northern Gaza Strip. The few Palestinians remaining in the area are being forcibly evacuated, homes and infrastructure have been destroyed, and wide roads in the area are being built and completing the separation of the communities in the northern Strip from the center of Gaza City. “The area looks like it was hit by a natural disaster,” Haaretz military correspondent Yaniv Kubovich concluded after a tour with Israeli forces there last week.

What Kubovich saw, however, was not a natural disaster but rather a premeditated act of human destruction. A senior IDF officer, identified by London’s The Guardian newspaper as Brig. Gen. Itzik Cohen, the commander of the 162nd Division, explained to reporters: “There is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes.”

The officer was asked if the army is carrying out the “Generals’ Plan” conceived by Maj. Gen. (ret.) Giora Eiland and a few of his fellow retired commanders to expel the Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip while withholding humanitarian aid from and starving those who remain, who would be considered Hamas militants and therefore legitimate military targets. “I don’t know what the Generals’ Plan is, I have no idea what it is,” the other replied, “We are acting on the instructions of the [IDF’s] Southern Command and chief of staff.”

He said that his division delivers humanitarian aid “toward the south,” outside of the “cleansed zone” in the northern Strip, where Israel does not allow food, water and medicine. “The IDF is a moral and ethical army,” the officer concluded. “We operate in this area … to allow the population to move south, while at times almost endangering our own lives.”

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