by RT at SOTT.net
Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of plotting the “ethnic cleansing” of Gaza and claimed that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops are carrying out “war crimes” in the Palestinian enclave.
Israel has launched an unprecedented wave of military destruction, citing a war on Hamas, in Gaza for over a year. The onslaught has killed almost 45,000 people, created famine conditions and displaced nearly all of the residents of the densely populated territory. In recent weeks, Israel has focused much of its firepower on northern Gaza, having issued an evacuation order covering large swathes of the region last weekend.
This evacuation order, Yaalon claimed on Sunday, is an attempt to hide the ongoing “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians.
“I am compelled to warn about what is happening there and is being concealed from us,” he told Israel’s Kan broadcaster. “At the end of the day, war crimes are being committed,” he added, citing information supposedly provided by IDF commanders in Gaza.
“The path they’re dragging us down is to occupy, annex, and ethnically cleanse. What is going on there? There is no Beit Lahia, no Beit Hanoun, they are operating now in Jabalia and basically cleaning the area of Arabs,” he said in a separate interview with Democrat TV on Saturday, referring to several neighborhoods inside the evacuation zone.
Yaalon served as the IDF’s chief of staff during the Second Intifada,…
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