Report from Gaza: Palestinians Feel They Are Being "Slowly Exterminated" in Israel's Genocide

[AloeVera]

154. You are mischaracterizing ethnic cleansing.

It is the expulsion of a population from a given territory. Not necessarily all the people, or the whole territory. Bosnia for instance, that is widely recognized as ethnic cleansing.

So let's stop time at the point the Cossacks have been shipped off. They were still ethnically cleansed, no?

The logical conclusion of ethnic cleansing (the replacement) - and its raison d'être - is the byproduct of the crime, not the crime itself.

That it's happening in the north of Gaza the last 6 weeks is undeniable. Note that the HRW report only looked at events up to August and still made its conclusion.

HRW’s report argued that “the actions of the Israeli authorities in Gaza are the actions of one ethnic or religious group to remove Palestinians, another ethnic or religious group, from areas within Gaza by violent means.”

It alleged the nature of the displacement was organized, and that the intention of Israeli forces is to ensure affected areas will “remain permanently emptied and cleansed of Palestinians.”

But perhaps the best arbiter of what's happening is not HRW and certainly not you and me in the safety of our still-standing and warm homes, but the people actually experiencing this horror:

Ragheb al-Rubaiya, a 63-year-old Palestinian from north Gaza’s Jabalia Camp, said to AFP that he had been driven from his home after “bombing started from the air and the tanks, and they drove us out against our will.”

“They’re destroying everything in Jabalia, and the goal is clear even to the blind: to wipe out the north and cut it off from Gaza,” he added.

Destroying everything is how you prevent people from returning. Nothing to return to. Unlivable.

Starving - no food aid for 40 days - terror and denial of medical care are ways to "incentivize" the cleansing.

It's all part of the continuum of the genocide.

I can't see how it could be defended or denied but that's just me.

In parting, let me respond to this. You wrote:

No matter how much you want it to be.

That's the end of our discussion.