Israeli forces continued bombing, shelling, and shooting civilians and systematically demolishing homes in gaza City tuesday as part of a US-backed plan to ethnically cleanse 1 million Palestinians from large parts of the embattled enclave so that Israel can reoccupy the coastal strip.For more than a week, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombing and shelling have pounded areas including the Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods of Gaza City, destroying hundreds of homes and also targeting displacement shelters in a bid to force Palestinians to flee to southern parts of the coastal enclave.
According to Al Jazera,there are approximately 11 displacement centers in Zeitoun,each housing 4,000-4,500 Palestinians,as much of Gaza City’s largest neighborhood had already been bombed and razed to the ground to create the Netzarim Corridor and “buffer zone.”
Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal told the Egyptian news site MADA MASR that the IDF is deliberately bombing inhabited apartment towers, wiping out large portions of extended families.
Heavy Israeli air strikes have hit a home in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, where shrapnel from another attack wounded a child. Israel’s military is intensifying its bombardment following its plan to take over Gaza City and forcibly displace Palestinians south.- Al Jareder English (@tyjazera.com)
Gaza Faces Weaponized Starvation, Ethnic Cleansing as IDF Intensifies Attacks
October 7, 2023, “50 Palestinians must die,” and it doesn’t matter “if they’re children.”
amid relentless IDF attacks, residents of northern and central Gaza are being pushed southward into the al-Mawasi area of Khan younis, where hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people are being confined in an 11-square-mile area.
Among the dozens of Palestinians reportedly killed across Gaza within the past 24 hours are at least five people-including two children-who died of malnutrition amid what Amnesty international on Monday called a “deliberate campaign” of weaponized starvation caused largely by Israel’s blockade on food, medicine, and other vital supplies. At least 266 Palestinians, including 122 children, have starved to death in Gaza as October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
IDF tanks and armored vehicles have faced sustained resistance as they attempt to achieve the objectives of Operation Gideon’s Chariots, a US-backed plan to conquer and indefinitely occupy Gaza, ethnically cleanse its Palestinian residents, and open the strip for possible Israeli resettlement.US President Donald Trump has said that he wants to transform Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza City has prompted renewed calls for international action.
“The widespread destruction in Zeitoun… is part of a deliberate Israeli policy: completing a campaign of genocide and erasing Palestinian urban life through the total destruction of homes, infrastructure, and access to basic livelihoods,” Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said Sunday.
“The international community, including the United Nations and global legal bodies, must intervene urgently to halt the massacres, protect civilians, and hold Israeli leaders accountable for these heinous crimes against the civilian population,” the Geneva-based group added.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague-which is currently weighing a genocide case against Israel-has issued three provisional orders as January 2024 for Israel to…
Israel to Respond to Gaza Truce plan by Friday
Israel will deliver its response to a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza by Friday, according to reports on Tuesday. the plan,which has been approved by Hamas,proposes a phased exchange deal involving the release of approximately half of the remaining 20 living Israeli and other hostages,as well as the bodies of some israelis killed on or after October 7th.In return, Israel would release roughly 150 Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons.
This development comes amidst ongoing conflict and reports of extensive destruction in Gaza, including allegations of ethnic cleansing in Gaza City neighborhoods.