On 19 May 2026, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich claimed that he was the subject of an application for an arrest warrant at the International Criminal Court (ICC), which he described as ‘a declaration of war’ and to which he responded with a threat of signing ‘an order to evacuate Khan al-Ahmar’, further entrenching Israel’s settler colonial apartheid regime.
… In addition to war crimes and crimes against humanity, forced displacement may amount to genocide. As Al-Haq revealed in ‘How to Hide a Genocide’, international jurisprudence makes crystal clear that beyond leading to the underlying acts of genocide,1 forced displacement may constitute evidence of genocidal intent, including in cases where affected members of the group are not transferred to a place where they are subjected to conditions leading to their death or destruction.2
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