Israel’s Generals’ Plan in north Gaza is ‘genocidal’ and ‘perversion of law’, say experts by Sondos Asem

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    For a month, Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza have been faced with three bitter choices: to be killed by Israeli bombardment, starved to death or forcibly displaced in a perilous journey to the south.
56. It is part of a military plan that legal experts have described to Middle East Eye as “genocidal” and aimed at permanent forced displacement of the northern Gaza population, as settlers plan for post-war colonisation of the Palestinian enclave.

… “Imposing a siege, preventing all access to food, water, medicine and shelter, all with an intention to force a population to leave, is textbook ethnic cleansing and is a grave crime under international law. It is both a war crime and a crime against humanity,” Balakrishnan Rajagopal, a law professor at MIT and UN special rapporteur on the right to housing, told MEE.

“Forcible displacement in northern Gaza under conditions of siege with an intent to eliminate their presence is genocidal, as it aims at the destruction of a people,” he added.