Concerns about Israeli plans for Gaza and Palestinian displacement

[JadeHare]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/28/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-military-70-percent-gaza-intl

Doesn’t look like there will be much land left for the Palestinians.

And in other news, from the Guardian:

“Israel’s defence minister has said he is committed to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza through large-scale migration of Palestinians as part of Israel’s long-term plans for the territory.
Israel Katz said the government would implement a plan for large numbers of Palestinians to leave Gaza “at the right time and in the right manner”, in a statement on Wednesday marking the targeted killing of Mohammed Odeh, Hamas’s most recent military commander.
Pushing for mass departures violates Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza, which Israel signed last year. The second point of the plan states: “Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.”
Israel’s government has promoted the prospect of Gaza without Palestinians since Trump suggested early last year that hundreds of thousands of people should leave to “clean out” the strip for reconstruction.
Last year Israel set up a bureau for “voluntary emigration” and eased travel restrictions for Palestinians who wanted to make a one-way journey out of the strip.
The forced transfer of civilian populations is a war crime and a crime against humanity. Israeli officials, including Katz, use the term “voluntary migration” to describe their ”

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That’s stolen now so moving swiftly on?

I’ve heard Lebanon is beautiful. Prime real estate beckons.

I’m sorry @JadeHare

Trying not to despair.

There is a sense of inevitability, but it is all so incremental. Haaretz on the necessity to speed up the process:

However, in light of the government's unjust policies, these sanctions will broaden, and eventually every Israeli citizen will feel their impact. The basic demand won't just be for Israel to cease creating facts on the ground, but for it to restore the situation to its previous state.
One can only hope this happens while Benjamin Netanyahu's government is still in power, so that it will have to deal with the pressure. However, if the pressure is applied to a new government formed after the election, one not based on ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel will face a serious problem.

The thing is it is not just about human rights. It is the fact those products, like Medjool dates and avocados, are grown on stolen land. Buying them is effectively buying contraband and rewarding the land thieves.

How can people fail to see that this is because Israel is our ally and we are complicit? We (the West) are actively supporting Israel and providing weapons and funding. We are protecting the politicans involved by refusing to arrest Netanyahu when he's travelled as required by the International Criminal Court. Our politicans are refusing to so much as impose sanctions in response to genoncide. It's difficult to even speak out again the actions of the state of Israel because politicans are fearful of being labelled antisematic. We are not supporting the Sryian regime! Instead in Australia, the Israeli president who has actively called for war crimes was invited to tour Australia and speak to school children. I suppose the safety and right of Palestian children are utterly important.

It's just very hard to fathom that on an article where a leading Israeli politican has called for ethnic cleansing, which is backed up by these actions having taken place in Gaza already, people are suggesting that we're racist for responding. If your argument is that it's antisematism for people to object to ethnic cleansing and war crimes when they're carried out by the Israeli state then that's quite troubling.

The wish to harm and remove one side from the land is shared by both sides. This article outlines a plan to remove all Palestians from their land. Israel have occupied the Westbank for many decades and actively conducted Apartheid. Many Palestians can't walk on streets, access shops or access their homes because of their race. The violence from illegal settlers is extreme and the IDF have annouced that Palestians who harm an Israeli who is illegally occupying their land will be killed. Ethnic cleansing will be met with resistance which will place innocent Israeli citizens in danger. Tel Aviv interprets this as the fault of Palestinians are more walls go and rules tighten.

Obviously it's not that simple and the wrongs on both sides go back to practically biblical times. But the situation can't be summarised as Israel defending against Palestinians who want to harm them for no reason (nor are the Palestians simply in the right). The settlers have stated very quickly that they want the Palestians to be removed from their land and, as often stated, die.

The hatred is sadly enormous on both sides but only Israel is empowered to build walls and checkpoints and remove Gazan's from their lands. Any ethnic clearning and illegal occupation of land should be strictly forbidden and enforced by the international community.

From the Independent today:

“Amnesty International has accused Israel of orchestrating a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with the ultimate aim of annexing the territory.
The rights organisation detailed its allegations in a new 149-page report, asserting that the forced displacement of West Bank Palestinians was the result of deliberate state policy rather than merely the actions of individual settlers. While settler activity is a significant driver of displacement, the report contends that such processes cannot occur without government backing.
The international community regards Israeli settlements as illegal. Israel, however, views the West Bank as disputed territory, maintaining that its final status is subject to negotiation.
UN data indicates that more than 100 West Bank villages were fully or partially emptied between January 2023 and April 2026. Concurrently, the UN documents over 7,280 instances of individual Palestinian displacement in the same period due to the demolition of homes and structures by Israeli forces, including people displaced multiple times.
Israel has previously dismissed allegations of “ethnic cleansing”, a term referring to the forced expulsion of a population through violence, as stemming from unfair bias.
It did not immediately respond to the latest report by Amnesty.”

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This is the message from the world’s leading human rights organisation:

To world leaders who repeatedly say they oppose annexation but do nothing to stop it: know that your inaction is directly fuelling crimes against humanity.
Agnès Callamard, Secretary General

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From the Independent today:
“Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, as well as war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry says.
The report, released on Tuesday by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023.
About 30 per cent of those killed in the Gaza war were children, the report found.
A previous report by the commission, released in September 2025, found that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, incited these acts. Israel earlier called those accusations scandalous.
Israel also rejected what it called the Commission's "second defamatory advocacy report", Israel's mission in Geneva said on Tuesday.
"Israel dismisses this libelous sham," it said in a statement.
It added that "every child deserves protection" and claimed that the report ignored "the brutal tactics of Hamas".”
“The UN commission said that Palestinian children were deliberately targeted and killed during the war, including after a ceasefire came into effect in October 2025.
It said that this was a key element establishing genocidal intent by Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian group, in whole or in part, in Gaza.
“The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, the commission's chair, in a statement accompanying the report.
More than 20,000 children killed
The report found that the proportion of children killed was higher than in previous conflicts. Between October 7, 2023 and October 7, 2025, at least 20,179 children were killed, around 30 per cent of the overall death toll.
By comparison, in hostilities in Gaza in 2008–2009 and 2014, children made up approximately 24 per cent of conflict-related fatalities, the report said.
Israeli forces continued to use high-payload munitions and weapons with wide-area effects in densely populated residential areas despite mounting child casualties, the commission said.”
“This indicates that such attacks, which killed children in such high numbers, were intentional.”
It said it believed children were targeted collectively because the Israeli security forces considered the civilian population as a whole to be associated with Hamas and other armed groups.
A rebuttal shared by Israel's mission in Geneva said Israel "consistently strives to minimise harm to children even in situations of conflict" and that Israel rejected the suggestion it deliberately targets children "in the strongest terms".
Mr Muralidhar said that by targeting children, Israel was undermining the capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future.
Conditions imposed by Israel in Gaza, including widespread attacks, repeated displacement and starvation caused by the blockade of aid, food and medicine, severely harmed children’s health and development, resulting in preventable deaths and trauma, the report said.”
“The inquiry also found that attacks on healthcare and reproductive facilities impacted the survival of newborns and reported increases in miscarriages, and that nearly all children in Gaza were reported to require psychological support.
Israel's rebuttal said the report failed to mention Israel's role in facilitating vaccinations and the entry of medical staff, and the establishment of field hospitals. It accused Hamas of systematically diverting humanitarian aid and fuel for hospitals. Hamas has rejected such accusations.”
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UN inquiry finds Israel committed genocide by deliberately killing Gaza children — The Independent
The inquiry also accused Israel of war crimes in the occupied West Bank
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Even if they aren’t shooting or bombing civilians (and yes they do target kids), another way of killing them is target the hospitals treating them, and to refuse to allow vital supplies in that would treat injuries and feed hungry kids. Also breastfeeding mothers were so malnourished they couldn’t produce milk, and Israel was refusing to allow formula milk in.

No one in the UK seems to care about the physical and sexual torture of babies and children.

Barely anyone even responds to news like this anymore, they are so busy looking the other way and pretending it isn't happening.

The British government are complicit.
The British government are donated to by massive Israeli lobby groups.
The UK are selling Israel the weapons to kill and torture children.
NHS doctors are being investigated and suspended by the GMC - all instigated by UK Lawyers for Israel.

If you disagree with the Israeli genocide of Palestinians and the physical and sexual torture of Palestinian children by the IDF you are called antisemetic.

Every single time anyone raises the issue of genocide they are silenced.

No, they don’t. They continue to supply the weapons in order to flatten Gaza and steal the land, same in Lebanon.
Netanyahu Is a hateful psychopath. The truth will come to light.
Trump openly discussed the new hotel in Gaza while the grey man sat beside him smiling brightly, Trump asking why would the people want to return.
At least Iran is trying to protect Lebanon.
Trump was the best thing and the worst thing to happen to Netanyahu. The world wants to know how he has this power? Follow the money.
Iran showed Trump up by not reacting like the savages that were portrayed to be, now all Lebanon residents are being accused as being terrorists now too.
I really don’t know what the future holds for Israel if Tucker Carlson or the likes of him get into power as President. Whoever takes over will be more than likely also controlled by the boogeyman who has lots of money.
It’s like a real life squid game with bombing.

I just don't understand how members of the public are so apathetic about it.

It's like people just don't care that they are being treated like absolute idiots. Just happy to sit back and be gas lit, lied to, brainwashed whilst their hard earned money is lining the pockets of child murderers.

If a British child is harmed by an adult there is mass public outrage.
If it's another child, nothing, nothing at all. Like their brain is dead to it all.

The media blackout and the lack of reporters in Gaza alive to tell the tale.
If Trump hadn’t got his Bibi’s back, the world would have pulled ranked, Ireland and Spain were called antisemitism for speaking out against Israel.
Spain took a huge step. Bibi will deal with them countries later.
It is so obvious that it is about land grabbing and oil. All the BS about taking Greenland for protection against Russia, they just wanted to drill it, conveniently they decide to save Venezuela, bombing Iran. Oil and money.
While the IDF continues to terrorise the people in Gaza, Lebanon, slaughtering humans and destroying holy sites, persecuting Christian’s.
Once Trump is out, Israel’s relationship with the world will come to light.

I fear the genocide will be complete by the time the American public become conscious enough to vote him out.
The British public are just as pathetic on this. We're about to get another Labour 'friends' of Israel puppet leader.

Sadly that’s true. Whoever is pulling the strings has a lot of power over the media, many people have been cancelled for speaking out.
I noticed a lot of people laughing at the recent capture of the people on the Sumud Flotilla that were captured and abused, leaders didn’t care. It’s mass manipulation. Definitely the Truman show.

People even use the laughing emoji in response to social media posts showing children with lost limbs from Israeli attacks. When you look up their profile they are totally hidden with no friends list to see. There seems to be a hell of a lot of people laughing at the atrocities. Always faceless cowards.

I've never known anything like it in my lifetime.

People openly praising the IDF, willing on the slaughter and laughing at the murder. Openly laughing at tortured and dying people.

It truly is a first for the human race.

Yep, most likely half lunatics, the other half are paid or bots.
The Daily mail is a fan anyway, no surprise.

Oh fgs anyone mentioning genocide is silenced? Are you living under a rock? Not a day passes without a celebrity or commitee or countless online threads accusing Israel of genocide. No one is silenced, ridiculous suggestion.
I'm interested in your opinion of why SA has delayed its case in the ICJ for a substantial amount of time to collect more evidence if its such a slam dunk clear cut genocide?

'UK Lawyers for Israel' are constantly working to silence people.

Of course it's a clear cut genocide. The United Nations are very clear on this.

SA probably needs more time because Israel have killed or imprisoned every journalist reporting from inside Gaza. Luckily a huge amount of evidence has been amassed and archived so that these war criminals, and all those complicit, can be trialled and punished for their involvement.

https://www.declassifieduk.org/landmark-complaint-issued-against-uk-lawyers-for-israel/

The lawyers dont seem to be very effective do they!

The United Nations has no jurisdiction to legally apply the term of genocide. Neither do you. So far its an opinion, and others have different opinions.

The lawyers for SA need more time to collect evidence? But I thought it was obvious abd clear cut? Can't be both, can it? Theres been an unprecedented amount of footage of and interest in whats going on in Gaza. You say a huge amount of evidence has been amassed and archived- why need another year then?

Honestly this contract refrain of people being silenced is ridiculous. My feed, my high street, my newspapers, politics here and the USA and in Israel is awash with, drowning in talk and criticism of Israel. By all means continue as is your right, but don't pretend you're in a persecuted minority on criticising Israel. You're the majority. You're the omnicause. You're following the pack. Have at it. But please fgs stop pretending you're being silenced.

Iran is trying to protect Lebanon?

You couldn't make it up.

Yes, Iran is protecting Lebanon by including them in the peace agreement. Even if the long term goal is to prevent Israel expanding across Lebanon. Without Iran bringing Lebanon into the peace agreement, they’d be bombed even worse than they currently have been.
Bibi showed the world he won’t be bossed around by America, yet every other country does what America barks. Bibi intentionally destroyed the deal, he won’t be satisfied until Iran is gone. He’ll be left waiting.

Iran isnt protecting Lebanon, it's protecting its proxy Hezbollah.
And Hezbollah being so influential within Lebanon has completely fucked what was once a prosperous country.
The Iranian leadership doesn't give a single shiny shit about the average Lebanese, it only cares about protecting its forward base and attacking Israel from that base.
In much the same way as Hamas doesn't give a shiny shit about how many innocent Palestinians have died, it cares mostly about attacking Israel.

I can't believe anyone truly believes Iran is protecting Lebanon. Its too frustrating.