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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, Ali Harb

Biden under pressure to act amid new fears of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza

The United Nations estimates about 1.9 million Palestinians are internally displaced in Gaza after months of Israeli bombardment [File: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

Rights advocates in the United States are urging President Joe Biden to end his administration’s “complicity” in Israeli rights abuses after key members of Israel’s government backed the idea of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza.

Far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich said this week that Israel should “encourage emigration” from the coastal enclave, home to an estimated 2.3 million Palestinians.

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