‘Another Nakba’: UN warns of new mass displacement of Palestinians amid Israeli genocide
A United Nations special committee has warned that the world could be witnessing “another Nakba” as the Israeli regime presses ahead with the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in its long-running war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
The UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories sounded the alarm on Friday, stressing that Israel is committing “ethnic cleansing” and inflicting “unimaginable suffering” on Palestinians.
The warning comes as the Israeli regime has declared that its genocidal actions in Gaza will not cease until “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians have been displaced.
For Palestinians, any forced displacement evokes memories of the “Nakba” or catastrophe, the mass displacement in the war that accompanied the illegal entity’s creation in 1948.
In 1948, approximately 760,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes as a result of the events leading up to the occupation of Palestine.
“Israel continues to inflict unimaginable suffering on the people living under its occupation, whilst rapidly expanding confiscation of land as part of its wider colonial aspirations,” the UN committee warned in a statement.
“What we are witnessing could very well be another Nakba.”
Underlining that the goal of wider colonial expansion is the occupying regime’s priority, the report added, “Security operations are used as a smokescreen for rapid land grabbing, mass displacement, dispossession, demolitions, forced evictions, and ethnic cleansing, in order to replace the Palestinian communities with Jewish settlers.”
Israel resumed its genocidal war on Gaza in mid-March, breaching a 2-month ceasefire with Hamas,
The Zionist regime has since been pummeling Gaza, practically making the territory uninhabitable in an apparent bid to force Palestinians to leave it.
For the past 70 days, Israel has prevented humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, where hundreds of civilians have been killed in intensified attacks since the war resumed.
This protracted obstruction of vital supplies marks the longest period of aid disruption since the genocidal war on Gaza began 19 months ago, exacerbating malnutrition and hunger among the already vulnerable 2.3-million population.
The devastating Israeli war has so far killed at least 52,787 Palestinians and injured 119,349 others. Most of the victims have been women and children.
In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the regime’s former minister for military affairs, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Tel Aviv also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on Gaza.
