Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly weighing a plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinian civilians from northern Gaza, including Gaza City, according to a former Israeli military official cited by CNN.

Netanyahu is considering this as part of efforts to allegedly encircle Hamas and pressure the group to release captives, which would see the population of northern Gaza, already besieged by Israel, being further starved.

The plan would turn the northern Gaza Strip into a closed military zone, meaning any person refusing to immediately leave their home would be killed by Israel. The proposal was made by a group of retired Israeli generals.

According to CNN, it has also been presented to the Israeli cabinet and a key parliamentary committee.

  • Archaeopteryx@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    So much bullshit in so little text… Again a “news” site that quotes a report from another site but doesn’t link to it (probably so most readers don’t read the real article). The CNN article says nothing about a plan to “ethnically cleanse northern Gaza” (this is typical Hamas press bullshit). Israel simply wants the civilian population remaining in the Netzarim Corridor to withdraw from the area so they are not longer in line of fire. And it is not an official plan but a plan of a group of retired Israeli military generals. Here is the link to CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/22/middleeast/netanyahu-gaza-hamas-expulsions-plan-intl/index.html

    And regarding MEE (Wikipedia):

    According to its critics, Middle East Eye began forming in London in 2013 as the Islamist influence of Al Jazeera began to wane; several Al Jazeera journalists subsequently joined the project. Jonathan Powell, a senior executive at Al Jazeera, was a consultant ahead of its launch and registered the website’s domain names. Bassasso, a Kuwait-born Palestinian living in London, was the sole director of Middle East Eye’s parent company, M.E.E. Limited. Bassasso was a former director for the Hamas-controlled Al-Quds TV.[1,2] David Hearst denied that Bessasso was the owner of the news site but refrained from divulging the real owner.

    [1] https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/new-london-connection-to-islamists-1.648408

    [2] https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/middle-east/qatars-other-covert-media-arm/

    I am not sure if I would trust a website which does not provide any information about ownership, funding, or has a director who worked for the Hamas which is designated as a terrorist group by a lot of countries. Nobody has to agree how Israel handles the situation, but also nobody should simply believe everything that is written on the Internet. War is bad and I think most of us can’t even imagine how bad and cruel war can be. Websites like MEE play a big part in creating even more hatred and suffering in this conflict through false information.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      The CNN article says nothing about a plan to “ethnically cleanse northern Gaza” (this is typical Hamas press bullshit). Israel simply wants the civilian population remaining in the Netzarim Corridor to withdraw from the area so they are not longer in line of fire

      “They don’t want to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza, they just want every ethnic Palestinian to be removed from the area. Totally different!”

      🤡