World could be witnessing ‘another Nakba’ in Palestine, UN committee warns
Al Jazeera
Israel’s priority is a ‘wider colonial expansion’, the committee on Israeli practices in occupied territories said.
The world could be witnessing “another Nakba”, or the expulsion of Palestinians, a United Nations special committee has warned.
The committee sounded the alarm on Friday, accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and saying it was inflicting “unimaginable suffering” on Palestinians.
The comments come after Israel announced a plan earlier this week to expel hundreds of thousands of hungry Palestinians from the north of Gaza and confine them in six encampments.
For Palestinians, any forced displacement evokes memories of the “Nakba“, or catastrophe – the mass displacement that accompanied Israel’s creation in 1948.
“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,” said the UN committee tasked with probing Israeli practices affecting Palestinian rights.
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