by Oui
Wed Feb 5th, 2025 at 01:34:06 PM EST
Launches campaign to add legislation under constitutional law ..
Israel's Gaza invasion - Day 487 | Dawn |
UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese gives a press conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark February 5. -- Reuters
Trump's 'immoral' Gaza plan includes `international crime': UN's Albanese
"It's unlawful, immoral and completely irresponsible," says Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, when asked about US President Trump's suggestion to remove Palestinians from Gaza and have the US take ownership, Al Jazeera reports.
"What he proposes is ... nonsense," Albanese said at a news conference in Denmark's capital Copenhagen. "It will make the regional crisis even worse.
"It's incitement to commit forced displacement, which is an international crime," she added. "The international community is made up of 193 states and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for: isolation."
I have got an idea ... Trump 2.0
Forced displacement to ensure an end to genocide of Palestinians.
The Armenian Genocides of 1915 were the culmination of years of oppression against the Armenian people. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered, in the most horrific of methods.
Uncovering the history of the Armenian Genocide
Reminds me too of Stalin and forced displacements post WWII of Crimean Tatars and so many others.
Palestinians would 'prefer to die' over being forced to leave Gaza
"People in Gaza see the US president's suggestion as provocative and deeply offensive," Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Rafah, southern Gaza.
"It disregards cultural, historical and emotional ties Palestinians have to their homeland. The Gaza Strip is not just a piece of land from the Palestinian perspective, it's where they have lived, worked and built their lives despite decades of hardship.
"For them, some comments made by the US president echo colonial narratives that seek to displace Indigenous people without addressing their legitimate right to live in dignity," he said.
For Palestinians, this is part of a longtime US policy to prioritise Israeli interests. The citizens we spoke to said they believe President Trump will try to scale up efforts of the Israeli political and military schemes, not just in Gaza but the whole region.
"People here are saying that if this step will officially take place on the ground, it will reshape the entire Palestinian territories. They prefer to die here instead of being displaced," he said.
Such statements could bring further psychological impact on civilians who are now concentrating on finding basic items and coping mechanisms amid this devastation, Azzoum added.
Open letter: Civil society coalition calls on Canada to halt all arms transfers to Israel
B 84 Forslag til folketingsbeslutning om, at Danmark skal fordømme israelske krigsforbrydelser i Gaza, øge dansk bistand til Palæstina og arbejde for en politisk løsning på konflikten (borgerforslag) | 19 Dec. 2023 |
Translation:
B 84 Proposal for a parliamentary resolution that Denmark should condemn Israeli war crimes in Gaza, increase Danish aid to Palestine and work for a political solution to the conflict (citizens' proposal).
Occupied Palestinian Territories - Gaza before 10/7 violent outbreak by Hamas
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt press briefing Copenhagen 5 Feb. 2025 Al Jazeera [video soon]
Israel’s top diplomat frames Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza as ’voluntary migration’
“As long as immigration is undertaken voluntarily and as long as there is a country that is willing to accept that person, can anyone say that this is immoral?” Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has said in comments carried by Israel’s Arutz Sheva media group.
“It seems that it is moral for every nation and for every person, unless he is Palestinian?” he added.
Earlier, Trump proclaimed that “the only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative” and claimed they would be better off elsewhere.
As we’ve reported, his plan prompted global condemnation.
Sorry Israel … your Hasbara bullshit has worn out .. has no meaning whatsoever in today’s digital world. Digging the hole deeper instead of getting out on a path towards peace in the Middle East.
Palestinians aren’t refugees but Nakba survivors.
