Tags: ethnic cleansing

15 Family Members Killed in Israeli Strike on Gaza; Only Seven-year-old, His Mother Survived

The likely target of last week’s IDF strike in Gaza City was a Hamas Finance Ministry employee. He and his five daughters were killed. ‘Everyone was gone – my brother and his kids, my sister and hers, my husband and our children,’ his wife said.

More accusations of Israel using Palestinians as human shields – War on Gaza Day 571

Int’l Court of Justice hearings against Israel continue; Israel deliberately spreads disease in prisons; Israel claims no evidence of humanitarian crisis in Gaza, bombs mosque, prepares to expand ground operation in Gaza; more.

Haaretz: Israel Preparing to Turn Rafah – One-fifth of Gaza – Into Part of Buffer Zone

The Israeli military reports that the area to be confiscated includes the city of Rafah and its surrounding neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian residents will compelled to leave and not allowed to return. 
If the plan is carried out fully, the people of Gaza will be confined to two distinct areas and surrounded by Israeli military zones.

As journalist burned alive, deportations from Gaza begin – War on Gaza Day 549

Israel may or may not allow aid into Gaza; US under fire for ignoring Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American teen; Trump, Netanyahu reaffirm vision for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza; Israel has turned 50% of Gaza into “uninhabitable kill zone”; White House blames Hamas for Israeli execution of Palestinian medics; more.