Israel’s PM Netanyahu openly announced the “genocide” in Gaza, saying he wanted the enclave “smaller in size and thinner in population,” human rights lawyer and former Palestinian peace negotiator Diana Buttu says. #Netanyahu #Gaza
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00:00Are we looking at a scenario in which people in Gaza are basically left with no choice but to try and leave?
00:07Given that, you know, there's nowhere safe in Gaza, it's what we're being told every time we speak to UN officials,
00:14they say this to us, nowhere is safe.
00:16And, you know, lurking in the back of everybody's minds is, is this Riviera of the Middle East going to become a reality?
00:23I mean, do you think that's where we're heading?
00:25The Israelis made it clear within the first few weeks of the genocide that they wanted to see the Gaza Strip smaller in size and thinner in population.
00:36These are the words of the Israeli prime minister.
00:39Put it a different context. It means ethnic cleansing.
00:42And this is the plan that they have been put into place since October of 2023, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
00:49It's gotten to the point now where if you look at the Gaza Strip,
00:53anybody who's been there can tell you that there is that they're now double and triple bombing the exact same sites.
01:00Ninety percent of all of the buildings in the Gaza Strip have been bombed.
01:05All of the hospitals have been bombed.
01:07Israel has created a scenario where the Gaza Strip is no longer livable so that it can affect its policies of ethnic cleansing and of genocide.
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