https://rt.com/news/-gaza-ethnic-cleansing-state-department
The US State Department condemned Israeli proposals to remove the Palestinian inhabitants of Gaza en masse in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday.
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller explicitly rejected recent comments from Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir supporting mass deportation of Palestinians as “inflammatory and irresponsible.”
Noting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of his cabinet have denied resettling Gaza’s Palestinian inhabitants constitutes official government policy, Miller demanded the ministers halt such rhetoric “immediately.”
“Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land, with Hamas no longer in control of its future and no terror groups able to threaten Israel,” he continued.
On Monday, Ben Gvir described “encouraging the residents of Gaza to emigrate” outside the enclave as “the right, just, moral, and humane solution,” explaining that it would allow Israelis living in border communities to return home.
He doubled down on his comments following Miller’s statement, writing in a post on Telegram, “I greatly appreciate the USA, but with all due respect…we will do what is good for the state of Israel.”
Smotrich made similar comments in an interview with Army Radio on Sunday. “What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage emigration,” he said. “If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not 2 million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after [the war] will be totally different.”
@C0nstitutionLaylaGreen5mos5MO
Why else would they level buildings with demolition explosives once they had confirmed they were cleared? They’re committing ethnic cleansing on the US taxpayer’s dime.
@OppositionHaileyRepublican5mos5MO
It’s pretty simple: When you’re launching missiles from batteries built into the ground OR holding Hamas meetings there, you just gave them a reason to level it.
@C0nstitutionLaylaGreen5mos5MO
The IDF have no justification to launch such missile attacks if there are innocent civilians likely to be killed or injured.
@OppositionHaileyRepublican5mos5MO
When the leadership (Hamas) uses their own people as human shields & tries to prevent them from moving out of the way after the IDF has warned them ahead of time, it is likely to happen.
@C0nstitutionLaylaGreen5mos5MO
Even if that is happening, that is not an argument for the justification of murdering innocent civilians.
The 20000+ murders of innocent civilians (including many children) since 7thOct are war crimes.