UN warns of “another Nakba” amid Israeli genocide in Gaza

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.

“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.

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.

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.”

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.