EU officials say world about to see 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
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Diplomats from the European Union warn that ethnic cleansing is impending in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli occupation prepares for a ground invasion of the blockaded Strip.
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Palestinians flee from northern Gaza to the south after the Israeli occupation forces forcibly displaced a population of over 1 million people in northern Gaza, Oct. 13, 2023 (AP)
As the Israeli occupation readies itself for a potential ground invasion of Gaza, a wave of Western diplomats and politicians are making visits left and right to occupied al-Quds to meet with Israeli officials
This comes as European Union President Ursula von der Leyen is on a trip to occupied Palestine as the occupation tells the people of Northern Gaza to head south in a forced displacement bid amid plans for extensive bombardment. Around a million people would be affected.
Check out the #EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen's speech last year in #Brussels when she asserted the EU's support for #Ukraine amid unsubstantiated reports that they were being cut off of their basic needs.
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However, as the EU President makes her trip to occupied Palestine, only "concern" arose in Brussels, with no action in sight to avert an Israeli ground invasion that would kill hundreds of thousands of people down the line.
Many EU officials also fear that this trek could see her endorsing an aggression resulting in mass civilian casualties in Gaza.
One diplomat in particular, according to the Financial Times, underlined that there was a possibility of "massive ethnic cleansing" and the only thing done by another official was to "urge Israel to respect international humanitarian law," according to the newspaper.
Confidence in the Israeli occupation heeding calls for restraint is waning in the West as the occupation seems dead set on invading Gaza.
The European Union is also concerned about "Israel" showing no regard for their indiscriminate bombardment of EU nationals who were taken captive by the Palestinian Resistance during the operation that took place on occupied Palestinian soil.
Al-Qassam Brigades announced Friday that 13 of the captives in Gaza were killed in the intensive Israeli bombardment of the North Gaza and Gaza governorates over the past 24 hours.
Al-Qassam confirmed that 6 of them were killed in two different locations in North Gaza, while 7 others were killed in the Gaza Governorate in three different locations targeted by the brutal enemy's shelling.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth had previously reported that the number of captives exceeded 200.
In a televised address to Israeli settlers amid Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the brutal Israeli aggression on Gaza that has so far killed thousands of civilians and bombed civilian infrastructure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli government has put “every other consideration to the side” for illegal Israeli settlers.
In the address, in which he also announced the formation of an emergency government, Netanyahu threatened “every Hamas member” with death.
Netanyahu made a political agreement with political opponent and former Security Minister Benny Gantz, which involved the Prime Minister agreeing to temporarily suspend his government's judicial overhaul plan. However, his far-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies will still be part of the government.
"Israel before anything else," Gantz wrote in a social media post while the far-right Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir wrote that he "welcomes the unity, now we must win."
