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On a pause from genocide, Israel turns its focus to ethnic cleansing | Occupied West Bank

Sunday, February 23, Israel deployed tanks in the occupied West Bank For the first time in more than two decades. It was the latest in a series of exciting works that escalated in January, in conjunction with the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.

Of course, the long -term nature of Israel Genocide policy In Gaza, any ceasefire is definitely temporary. In the 15 months of the attack on the Palestinian enclave that started in October 2023, the Israeli army has officially killed at least 4,8365 Palestinians, most of whom are women and children-although the real number of death is undoubtedly. Much higher. Most of the people of Gaza were displaced by the Israeli attack, and many of them more than once.

Now, the Times from Israel reported that more than 40,100 Palestinians are in the West Bank refugee camps such as Jenin They have “fled their homes” since January 21, and it is “the biggest displacement in the region since the six war in 1967”. On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued instructions to the army to prepare for “an extended presence in the camps that were purified for the next year, and not to allow the restoration of the population.”

In any case, there is nothing like ethnic cleansing To pave the way for annexationThe main imagination of the Israeli right wing. The illegal plan may soon receive clear support from US President Donald Trump, who in early February noticed: “People love the idea, but we have not yet taken a position on it.”

On Monday-one day after Israel’s deployment of tanks in the West Bank and the announcement of the actual ethnic cleansing of the European Union and Israel held the thirteenth meeting in Brussels in the Council of the European Union and Israel Association, which was attended by representatives of all 27-year-old European Union and head by Israeli Foreign Minister Gidonon.

In theory, the meeting was an opportunity at the appropriate time to summon Israel outside the collective forced displacement and continuous slaughter in the West Bank – not to mention, as you know, the genocide in Gaza. Three days before the Brussels forces, the Israeli forces He shot two Palestinian children At the back near Jenin and Viron, respectively.

Article 2 of the Convention on the European Union of Israel determines that “relations between the two parties, as well as all the provisions of the agreement itself, are based on respect for human rights and democratic principles.” It was this article that was called in February 2024 by the leaders of Spain and Ireland, who called for a review of whether Israel violated human rights obligations by agreement.

But at a meeting on Monday with Sa’ar, it was clear that the European Union – the largest commercial partner of Israel – was more interested in maintaining its association with a country guilty of all kinds of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In the official “observation” that was previously conducted regarding the position of the European Union, the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union for Israel began to emphasize that “the European Union links great importance to its close relationships with the state of Israel.”

This entails a lot of rear acceptance of Israel during the remaining period of the 28 -page PDF document, where the European Union crosses its “full solidarity, support for Israel and its people” and determining Israel as a major partner for cooperation “in many regions. The observation confirms the extent of” the “European Union to work with Israel” to address global challenges “as well as” accelerating the world’s transformation into a safe and fair diet ” – a rich task – a rich task Very to appoint the people who were only Using hunger as a war weapon In Gaza.

This does not mean that the Europeans did not run a single cash for Israel in 28 pages. The note is concerned with the fact that “the European Union denounces the unacceptable number of civilians, especially women and children, who lost their lives” in Gaza; The European Union remembers that annexation is illegal under international law. And that “the European Union is still very concerned about the intense asylum by Israel to random arrests and administrative detention without an official charge.” But any fundamental condemnation ultimately drowns the fact that Europe is very excited to cooperate with Israel, and now and forever.

This statement also informed us that “the European Union is very concerned that the occupation of the Palestinian territories that started in 1967 continues to this day,” and repeatedly repeatedly supporting the two -state solution. However, anyone who guesses how, exactly, is supposed to be an end to the profession, when not only welcomes the occupying country, but also seeks the disappearance of the Palestinian people as a wonderful regional partner.

Speaking to the journalists in Brussels, Israeli Foreign Minister Sair defended the current Israel campaign of forced displacement in the West Bank, which required killing on a large scale by the army Illegal settlers In addition to the demolition of homes: “They are military operations taking place against terrorists, and there are other targets other than that.”

Certainly, the old anti -terrorist excuse never fails to justify it Israel’s permanent fatigue From the Palestinians. At the beginning of the escalation of the West Bank of Israel in January, Defense Minister Katz also cleared a speech to explain how Israel was now putting “the first lesson of the repeated raids in Gaza” by placing Jenin on a “strong operation to eliminate terrorists and terrorism in the camp, ensuring that the terrorist does not return to the camp after the operation.”

In fact, the West Bank operations in Israel are only an extension of the genocide approach in Gaza, with collective slaughter and displacement with the entire United States and European Collusion – Under the service of the intermittent lips paid for Palestinian rights.

It remains to see whether Trump will now suggest “Rivera Dead Sea” in the West Bank to compete with his vision.Riviera from the Middle EastAnd, which is supposed to emit the ruins of the Gaza Strip once the United States controls the region and expels the indigenous people.

Meanwhile, Israel’s crimes against humanity will continue to be normalized by the “main cooperation partners” in the country all over the world, while genocide is increasingly reviewing a world other than news. This, frankly, is a crime against humanity itself.

The opinions expressed in this article are the authors ’king and do not necessarily reflect the position of the editorial island.

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2025-02-28 15:02:00

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