from Middle East Eye
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Sunday published an editorial accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli military of “conducting an ethnic cleansing operation” in northern Gaza.
The piece cited the paper’s military correspondent, who, after touring the area with Israeli forces last week, concluded that the region looked as if it had been struck by a “natural disaster”.
The editorial emphasised that the devastation was a “premeditated act of human destruction.”
It reported that a senior officer, identified by the Guardian as Brigadier General Itzik Cohen, the commander of the 162nd Division, told reporters: “My task is to create a cleansed space...We are moving the population for its protection, in order to create freedom of action for our forces.”
When asked if the military was executing the ‘Generals’ Plan,’ which includes ethnically cleansing the area and killing any Palestinians who remain, the officer denied knowledge of it, insisting that the army was “acting on the instructions of the [Israeli military’s] Southern Command and chief of staff.”...
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