US president’s call for mass displacement in Gaza risks renewing the fighting in the devastated enclave, analysts say following the 18 month genocide in Gaza.
Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is in Chicago today and submitted a request that he, too, be criminally investigated for genocide, war crimes, and torture, and that the International Criminal Court’s warrant for his arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity be enforced.
The detailed submission from the same group of Palestinian Americans went to the DOJ Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecution Section, the FBI’s Chicago Field Office, and the Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
Trump pushes for ethnic cleansing
Trump repeatedly called this week for Gaza to be depopulated — a push that rights groups say would amount to ethnic cleansing — and for the US to “take over” the Palestinian territory.
Leaders across the world have warned that uprooting Palestinians from Gaza would destabilise the entire Middle East. More immediately, Trump’s comments could derail the push towards an enduring end to the fighting in the territory.
“President Trump’s completely outrageous and outlandish calls for the ethnic cleansing of more than two million Palestinian people from Gaza severely undermines the chances for the continuation of the ceasefire,” said Josh Ruebner, a lecturer at Georgetown University’s Justice and Peace programme.