Gaza city: President of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) Rawhi Fattouh condemned the Israeli occupation army’s proposed plan to forcibly displace nearly one million Palestinians from Gaza City. In a statement issued Sunday, Fattouh described pushing the populations to flee toward the coast and southern areas as a systematic ethnic cleansing crime aimed at uprooting the population from their land.

According to Qatar News Agency, the occupation’s announcement of bringing tents and shelter equipment into southern Gaza to accommodate the displaced from Gaza City is merely a cover for a larger massacre. This plan forces the people into less than 12% of the Gaza Strip area, which is in blatant defiance of international law and a violation of all human rights conventions and values, he said.

Fattouh warned against the involvement of any international organization in facilitating displacement under a misleading humanitarian guise. He referred to the so-called humanitarian zones on the coast or in Rafah, southern Gaza, as part of this deceptive strategy.

On August 8, the Israeli security cabinet approved a plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City. In a related context, Fattouh condemned the bombing of Al-Ahli (Baptist) Hospital, which resulted in the killing of many patients and civilians, describing it as a full-fledged war crime.

He called on the US administration to stop supporting the occupation and to intervene to halt this catastrophe, which has continued for 681 days. He considers the silence of the international community to be complicity and a grave moral and humanitarian failure.